“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things … For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens…..”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“Science is the process of thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”
Johannes Kepler (Mathematician, Astronomer 1571-1630)
“Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.”
Arthur Compton (Physicist 1892-1962)
“Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life.”
Arthur Compton (Physicist 1892-1962)
“For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence–an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered–‘In the beginning God.'”
Arthur Compton (Physicist, 1892-1962)
“If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.”
Robert Boyle (Philosopher, Chemist, 1627-1691)