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 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 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.

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

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.

Twill be the end of us all when it comes...The moon will devour the sun...The sea will rise in a great wave and drown the world...The Realms will fall...Evil will crawl across the land.

For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life?

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.