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We need to move from an artificially polarised debate around theology and science, to a creative articulation of a theology of science.

Tom McLeish

I don’t argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I’ve never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing.

S. Kelley Harrell

Science is about knowing and so is religion, but they’re about different kinds of knowing. Science is about how things happen and what’s out there. And religion is much more about the meaning behind what is and relationships between human beings and that beyond ourselves and between human beings themselves.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

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

Augustine of Hippo

Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.

Ruha Benjamin

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

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest of us sit round and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God rejoices that his human creatures, irrespective of race, culture, gender, or religious faith, are making exhilarating advances in science, art, music, ethics, philosophy, and law, apprehending with increasing ability the truth, the beauty, the goodness that emanate from him.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Madeline L’Engle