“We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.”
- Alister McGrath, Mere Theology
“The Christian faith… allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.”
- Alister McGrath, Mere Theology
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
- Albert Einstein
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
“We should praise God for the little we do know and understand, not make any theological or apologetic investments based upon our present scientific ignorance.”
- Denis Alexander, Creation or Evolution?
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
- Douglas Adams, The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“We are all deeply embedded in (and ultimately dependent on) the cyclical processes of nature.”
- Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life
“Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”
- Guy Deutscher, The Unfolding of Language
“[The Bible] is not a biology textbook…”
- Isaac Asimov
“‘All we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.’”
- Alberto Knox to Sophie Amundsen,
Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World
“Wasn’t the whole world a magic picture which added to itself? For the world changed all the time. It was never completely finished.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery
“For those predisposed to gloom, evolutionary biology can hardly be a very uplifting science.”
- Jostein Gaarder, Maya
“Everybody has a unique and endogenous nature. A self.”
- Matt Ridley, Genome
“Indeed, I am uncomfortable with any natural theological approach that tries to support belief by appeal to nature. Too often, scientists change their minds, and the believer is left to scramble to shore up religious claims that no longer have strong empirical support. Far better to go with a theology of nature, that starts with faith and then delights in the creation, whatever its nature and our contemporary understanding.”
- Michael Ruse, “Are we here by chance?: Review of Simon Conway Morris’ Life’s Solution“
“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist…”
- Michael Ruse
“Everybody is worried about stopping terrorism. Well there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.”
- Noam Chomsky
“No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming.”
- Paul Davies, The Mind of God
“… I remain a theist (of a specifically Christian variety) because I have yet to see a better account of reality to satisfy my mind, a more powerful source of personal transformation for my heart, or a more meaningful purpose for my life.”
- Peter S. Williams, A Sceptic’s Guide to Atheism
“The universe is a strange and wondrous place…”
- Richard Dawkins
“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
“We are surrounded by endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection – the only game in town, the greatest show on earth.”
- Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth
“If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, “The Reverent Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet”
“We pass through this world but once.”
- Stephen Jay Gould
“Knowing about the ubiquity of complex language across individuals and cultures and the single mental design underlying them all, no speech seems foreign to me, even when I cannot understand a word… I imagine seeing through the rhythms of the structures underneath, and sense that we all have the same minds.”
- Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
“I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God’s, or Nature’s method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.”
- Theodosius Dobzhansky,
“Nothing Makes Sense in Biology Except in the Light of Evolution
