Scientists on Religion

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Wernher von Braun (1912–1977): Rocket Scientist

“They (evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron? What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the grounds that they cannot conceive Him?”
 
George Coyne Jesuit and former Vatican Astronomer

“If I believe in God, then why shouldn’t I as a scientist ask, ‘What kind of God would create a universe like this?’ That really enriches, gives a deeper meaning, to my faith.” ‘The universe glorifies god in a way that I would have never known had I not tried to understand the universe scientifically.’ " Theologians have this beautiful idea of continuous creation, but to my mind, even Catholic theologians do not use it enough with enough of an understanding of modern science to really reflect on its rich meaning. Creation did not happen once 14 billion years ago. Creation is continuing. God is continuing to work from outside the universe with the universe and from within the universe with the universe."
 
William Daniel Phillips (born 1948): 1997 Nobel laureate in Physics

“I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.”
 
Gerald Schroeder Nuclear Physicist
from The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“The further philosophical problem of there having been a beginning arises with the idea that the beginning of our universe marks the beginning of time, space, and matter. Before our universe came into being, there is every scientific indication that time did not exist. Whatever brought the universe into existence must of course predate the universe, which in turn means that whatever brought the universe into existence must predate time. That which predates time is not bound by time. Not inside of time. In other words, it is eternal. If the laws of physics, or at least some aspect of the laws of physics, did the job of creation, those laws by necessity are eternal.”
 
Julian Huxley Evolutionary Biologist

“I suppose the reason we leaped at the origin of species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.”
 
**Alessandro Volta ** Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity

“I do not understand how anyone can doubt the sincerity and constancy of my attachment to the religion which I profess, the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic religion in which I was born and brought up, and of which I have always made confession, externally and internally. I have, indeed, and only too often, failed in the performance of those good works which are the mark of a Catholic Christian, and I have been guilty of many sins: but through the special mercy of God I have never, as far as I know, wavered in my faith… In this faith I recognise a pure gift of God, a supernatural grace; but I have not neglected those human means which confirm belief, and overthrow the doubts which at times arise. I studied attentively the grounds and basis of religion, the works of apologists and assailants, the reasons for and against, and I can say that the result of such study is to clothe religion with such a degree of probability, even for the merely natural reason, that every spirit unperverted by sin and passion, every naturally noble spirit must love and accept it. May this confession which has been asked from me and which I willingly give, written and subscribed by my own hand, with authority to show it to whomsoever you will, for I am not ashamed of the Gospel, may it produce some good fruit!”
 
**Richard Feynman ** Nobel Prize Physics

“It takes more than the right conscience to produce right behavior. And even though you may know what you are supposed to do, you all know that you don’t do things the way you would like yourself to do them. And one of the powerful aspects of religion is its inspirational aspects. Religion gives inspiration to act well. Not only that, it gives inspiration to the arts and to many other activities of human beings.”
 
William of Ockham Originator of the Scientific Principle known as Ockham’s Razor

“… adultery, and the like may involve evil according to the common law, in so far as they are done by someone who is obligated by a divine command to perform the opposite act. As far as everything absolute in these actions is concerned, however, God can perform them without involving any evil. And they can even be performed meritoriously by someone on earth if they should fall under a divine command, just as now the opposite of these, in fact, fall under a divine command.” [Opera Theologica]
 
René Descartes Scientist, Mathematician, Philosopher

“So there remains only the idea of God; and I must consider whether there is anything in the idea which could not have originated in myself. By the word ‘God’ I understand a substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else (if anything else there be) that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible that they could have originated from me alone. So from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.”
 
Dr. David Eagleman is a scientist.

He developed “possibilist” philosophy, if this thread has not mentioned him.

He is a specialist on the human brain.

He can see the possibility of a higher power.

God bless!
 
Immanuel Kant Philosophy of Science

“It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
 
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Georges Lemaitre the Belgian Catholic priest who developed the “Big Bang” theory.

You can read some quotes on - The Faith and Reason of Father Georges Lemaitre catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8847.
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Thank you. Interesting article! 👍

George Lemaître Catholic priest and originator of the Big Bang Theory

“Both of them (the scientist-believer and the scientist-nonbeliever) attempt at decoding the palimpsest of nature with multiple imbrications in which the traces of the various stages of the world’s lengthy evolution has been overlapped and blended. The believer perhaps has an advantage of knowing that the riddle possesses a solution, that the underlying writing finally comes from an intelligent being, and consequently that the problem proposed by nature has been posed in order to be solved, therefore, that its degree of difficulty is presumably measurable with the present and future capacities of humanity.”
 
**Dr. Paul Vitz ** Psychologist, Former Atheist

“Freud makes the simple and easily understandable claim that once a child is disappointed in or loses respect for his earthly father, belief in a heavenly father becomes impossible.”
 
**Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier **Father of Modern Chemistry

“You have done a noble thing in upholding revelation and the authenticity of the Holy Scripture, and it is remarkable that you are using for the defense precisely the same weapons which were once used for the attack.” Letter to Edward King
 
**Alexander Graham Bell ** Inventor Telephone and Photophone

“God has strewn our paths with wonders, and we shall certainly not go through Life with our eyes shut.”
 
J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of the Atomic Bomb

“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
 
**Adam Sedgwick ** Geologist

Commenting on Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species
"It repudiates all reasoning from final causes; and seems to shut the door on any view (however feeble) of the God of Nature as manifested in His works. From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked and served up.”
 
Robert Grosseteste (c.1175–1253): optics, astronomy and geometry. Bishop of Lincoln, England, Grosseteste is regarded as the founder of the scientific movement at Oxford.

“Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.”
 
Charles Babbage mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer

“In the works of the Creator ever open to our examination, we possess a firm basis on which to raise the superstructure of an enlightened creed. The more man inquires into the laws which regulate the material universe, the more he is convinced that all its varied forms arise from the action of a few simple principles… The works of the Creator, ever present to our senses, give a living and perpetual testimony of his power and goodness far surpassing any evidence transmitted through human testimony. The testimony of man becomes fainter at every stage of transmission, whilst each new inquiry into the works of the Almighty gives to us more exalted views of his wisdom, his goodness, and his power.”
 
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