24 Quotes by George Coyne

I can’t see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It’s not rational – it doesn’t proceed by scientific investigation – but it’s not irrational because it doesn’t contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He’s not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

Science is and should be seen as “completely neutral” on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.