The following are quotes from famous Scientists about Science and God:
"Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." -James Tour (Nanoscientist)
"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." -Isaac Newton (Scientist)
"I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." -Albert Einstein (Scientist)
"A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question." -Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist)
"Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word." -George Ellis (British astrophysicist)
"I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." -Alan Sandage
"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming"..."The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose". -Paul Davies (British astrophysicist)
"We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in." -John O'Keefe (astronomer at NASA)
"As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency - or, rather, Agency - must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?" -George Greenstein (astronomer)
"The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory." -Arthur Eddington (astrophysicist)
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan." -Arno Penzias (Nobel prize in physics)
"I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance." -Roger Penrose (mathematician and author)
"When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it." -Tony Rothman (physicist)
"The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine." -Vera Kistiakowsky (MIT physicist)
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." -Robert Jastrow
"Then we shall… be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God." -Stephen Hawking (British astrophysicist)
"When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics." -Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)
"We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it." -Alexander Polyakov (Soviet mathematician)
"Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God – the design argument of Paley – updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument." -Ed Harrison (cosmologist)
"As to the cause of the Universe, in context of expansion, that is left for the reader to insert, but our picture is incomplete without Him [God]." -Edward Milne (British cosmologist)
"Who created these laws? There is no question but that a God will always be needed." -Barry Parker (cosmologist)
"This type of universe, however, seems to require a degree of fine tuning of the initial conditions that is in apparent conflict with 'common wisdom'." -Drs. Zehavi, and Dekel (cosmologists)
"It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life." -Arthur L. Schawlow (Professor of Physics at Stanford University, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics)
"The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan." -Henry "Fritz" Schaefer (Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia)
"I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science." -Wernher von Braun (Pioneer rocket engineer)
"It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design." -Antony Flew (Professor of Philosophy, former atheist, author, and debater)
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