Quotes about Science

Andy Stanley put it well: "My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.

In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

Natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.

All that oppressed me at that moment became objective, seen and described from the remote viewpoint of science. By this method I succeeded somehow in rising above the situation, above the sufferings of the moment, and I observed them as if they were already of the past.

Meaning is missing in the world as described by many a science. This, however, does not imply that the world is void of meaning but only that many a science is blind to it. Meaning is scotomized by many a science.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.