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

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.

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

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

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

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.

No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.