Augustine of Hippo – Christian Leadership in an age of Science

When they are able, from reliable evidence, to prove some fact of physical science, we shall show that it is not contrary to our Scripture.

Augustine of Hippo

Voices

Only art can go some way towards making accessible, towards waking into some measure of communicability, the sheer inhuman otherness of matter…

G. Steiner

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G.K. Chesterton

My thesis is that what we call ‘science’ is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition—that of critically discussing the myth. … In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

Karl Popper

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

We should use our opinions to start discussions, not to end them.

Madeline Albright

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

John Polkinghorne

Knowing is itself an act that has consequences

Ivone Gebara

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

Niels Bohr

(Describing the Munduruku people of Brazil): The sacred dimension, for them, does not have a wall around it. How are you going to build a place for God if God is in everything?

Fr. Joao Messias Sousa, OFM

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

Marie Curie