The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.