Transcript - What can today's cutting-edge science learn from theology?

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The opposite of an ordinary truth is a non-truth; but the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Marie Curie

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge.

Clarence Darrow

There are but two ways whereby the Spirit leadeth men into all truth; the one extraordinary, the other common; the one belonging but unto some few, the other extending itself unto all that are of God; the one, that which we call by a special divine excellency Revelation, the other Reason.

Richard Hooker

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations or foreign peoples.

Yaʻqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (801-873):

Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.

Mary Midgley

There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both the physical and the moral facts of the universe. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected.

Ada Lovelace

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.

C.S. Lewis

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Albert Einstein

When we do science, we participate in the healing work of the creator.  When we understand a little more of nature, we take a step further in the reconciliation of a broken relationship.

Tom McLeish