Johannes Kepler Quotes

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

It a heresy to deny that the stars are brought out by God from his treasure-house and hung in the sky every evening; any other view is false to the Catholic faith.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.