Francis Collins Quotes

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.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

I think science and religion should be separate.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

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'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.