George Coyne

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

— George Coyne

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of…

— George Coyne

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

— George Coyne

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief…

— George Coyne

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things…

— George Coyne

My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that…

— George Coyne

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

— George Coyne

If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that…

— George Coyne

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So…

— George Coyne

In a very real sense my science does inform my knowledge of God. If you would allow me to say that we…

— George Coyne

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can…

— George Coyne

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's…

— George Coyne

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a…

— George Coyne

The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God…

— George Coyne

The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed…

— George Coyne

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

— George Coyne

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge…

— George Coyne

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated…

— George Coyne

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused…

— George Coyne

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact,…

— George Coyne

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who…

— George Coyne

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

— George Coyne

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

— George Coyne

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do,…

— George Coyne