156 Quotes by Francis Collins

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

Sim, Darwin estava certo e que intuição brilhante ele teve, mas tudo o que ele estava fazendo era deduzir o mecanismo de criação que Deus usou." (Francis Collins, cristão e cientista, ex-diretor do Projeto Genoma Humano, no DVD "O Teste da Fé")

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?