Herbert Spencer Quotes

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

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.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

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.

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.

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

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realization.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.