George Coyne Quotes
I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.
Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.
The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.
I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.
Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.
Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.
Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.
There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.