Scientists on Religion

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Mariano Artigas Physicist, Philosopher, Theologian
“We know of the existence of teleology because we observe directionality in the world, but als because the world we observe, if it were the mere product of natural forces alone, would be, in the last analysis, completely unreasonable.”
 
Alfred North Whitehead Mathematician, Philosopher

“Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.”
 
Ludwig Wittgenstein Logician, Mathematician

“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”
 
Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Inventor

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
 
**Albert Einstein **Physicist
“There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.”
 
**Georges Lemaitre **Big Bang Theory
“Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.”
 
Steven Weinberg Physicist Nobel Prize

“Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.”
 
Fred Hoyle Physicist

“It is against the spirit of scientific enquiry to regard observable effects arising from ‘causes unknown to science,’ and this principle is what creation-in-the-past implies.”
 
Mariano Artigas Physicist, Philosopher, Theologian

“The search for truth is not a supreme value; we cannot justify, for example, any kind of experiment on human beings by arguing that it could lead to progress in the medical sciences. Scientific values exist and must be harmonized with other ethical values.”
 
John Polkinghorne Physicist, Theologian

“… there are questions which arise from science and which insistently demand an answer, but which by their very character transcend that of which science itself is competent to speak. There is a widespread feeling among practicing scientists, particularly those of us who have worked in fundamental physics, that there is more to the physical world than meets the scientific eye. As a result of that feeling, we are living at a time where there is a revival of natural theology taking place, largely at the hands of scientists rather than theologians.”
 
Rupert Sheldrake Biochemist

“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14.
I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”
 
Carl Woese Microbiologist

“Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it’s not. It’s an alien invasion of science.”
 
This one might not be famous, but it should be imho…
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“Oh!!! That’s how God did it!!!”*

Grade 12 science student at a public school… Kudos to him
 
Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Founding Father
“I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning…”
 
Erwin Schrodinger Physicist

“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.”
 
James Prescott Joule Physicist

“It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed."
 
Carl Linnaeus Botanist

“As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.”
 
**William Bateson **Geneticist

“When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”
 
**Joseph Henry **Electromagnetism

“The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of religion.”
 
Thomas Edison Inventor

“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.”
 
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