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On Our Search for Truth and Wisdom
"Science
without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." —Albert Einstein
“Science can
purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from
idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a
world in which both can flourish. . . We need each other to be what we must be,
what we are called to be." —Pope
John Paul II
"The goal
of science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion
is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning." —Ian Barbour
“Religion is
poetry plus, not science minus." — Krister Stendahl
"Culture
(science) is the form of religion; religion is the substance of culture
(science)." —Theologian Paul
Tillich
"Traditional
religious creation stories and evolution are complementary. Science and religion together can weave a
rich tapestry of new meaning for our age." —Theologian Philip Hefner
"Science
is an effort to understand the creation. Biblical religion involves our
relation to the Creator. Since we can learn about the Creator from his
creation, religion can learn from science." —Physicist Paul H. Carr
"There is
more RELIGION in men's SCIENCE than there is SCIENCE in their RELIGION." —David Henry Thoreau
"Science
makes major contributions to minor needs. Religion, however small its
successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most." —Justice Oliver W. Holmes
"Credo ut
Intelligam." ( I believe
in order to understand.) —St. Augustine
"Two
things continue to fill the mind with ever increasing awe and admiration: the
starry heavens above and the moral law within." —Immanuel Kant
"He who
has art and science also has religion; but those who do not have them better
have religion." —Goethe
"As a
blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the
all-wise God perceives and understands all things." —Isaac Newton
"The
essence of God’s creative action is the giving of being to a highly capable
universe that is called to effect the Creator’s intentions for its
actions." —Howard J. Van Till
"Science and religion are two windows that people look through,
trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are
here. The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same
universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave
out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect.”
—Physicist Freeman Dyson
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