Hannah Arendt – Christian Leadership in an age of Science

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same.

Hannah Arendt

Voices

In attempting to construct such machines, we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

Alan Turing

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Alistair McGrath

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles, military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

David Berlinski

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

Niels Bohr

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

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Augustine of Hippo

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God… [by] thinking God’s thoughts after Him.

Johannes Kepler

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Madeline L’Engle

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Think of who created thought.

Rumi