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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
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Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
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I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
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The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,…
— William Blake
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
— Bertrand Russell
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No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided…
— Bertrand Russell
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
— William Osler
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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
— David Sarnoff
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view,…
— Adolf Hitler
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can…
— Sigmund Freud
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
— Emile Durkheim
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
— Heinz Pagels
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Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with…
— George MacDonald
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