- I have never found a better expression than "religious" for this trust in the rational nature of reality and its peculiar accessibility to the human mind. Where this trust is lacking science degenerates into an uninspired procedure. - Albert Einstein
- Certain it is that a conviction, akin to a religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order . . . this firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. - Albert Einstein II
- There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. - Max Planck
- In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I am now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on. Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point. - Werner Heisenberg
And as a tip-o-the-hat for those of us with ties to Oregon: ". . . nothing is more evident, more certain, than the existence or reality of God." - Dr. Wolfgang Smith, who, after receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (he received a B.A. in mathematics, physics, and philosophy from Columbia at age 18), held professorial positions at M.I.T., U.C.L.A., and Oregon State University till his retirement in 1992. He published extensively on mathematical topics relating to algebraic and differential topology, and his research on the aerodynamics of diffusion fields provided the theoretical key for the solution to the re-entry problem for space flight.
Pierre Duhem (1861-1916)
A favored friend thanks to the Universiy of Iowa philosohy department, for his work in the philosophy and history of science.
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