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See also Science
Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Louis Pasteur
"The more I study nature, the more I am amazed of the Creator."
Lord Kelvin
When Lord Kelvin was considering to harness the power of the Niagara Falls. Upon his first visits was told by his guide "This is the most powerful, untapped source of energy in the universe." Lord Kelvin replied "No, the Holy Spirit is the most powerful untapped source of energy in the universe."
Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
Sir Isaac Newton
"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."
"In the absence of all evidence my thumb alone will convince me that there is a God."
Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television.
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
James Newton, Uncommon Friends
Thomas A. Edison was working on a crazy contraption called a "light bulb" and it took a whole team of men 24 straight hours to put just one together. The story goes that when Edison was finished with one light bulb, he gave it to a young boy helper, who nervously carried it up the stairs. Step by step he cautiously watched his hands, obviously frightened of dropping such a priceless piece of work. You've probably guessed what happened by now; the poor young fellow dropped the bulb at the top of the stairs. It took the entire team of men twenty-four more hours to make another bulb. Finally, tired and ready for a break, Edison was ready to have his bulb carried up the stairs. He gave it to the same young boy who dropped the first one. That's true forgiveness.
Einstein said in an interview in 1929
(see 'Einstein - a life', D. Brian, Wiley, 1996, p. 186)
'"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God. We see a universe marvellously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand those laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.'"
('Einstein - a life', D. Brian, Wiley, 1996, p. 186)
No scientist has the right to dismiss Christian belief today as irrelevant, anymore than Einstein who, although he did not believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, nevertheless stated
'"Jesus is too colossal a figure for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life'"
Faraday regarded his scientific enquiry as part of a much greater whole. In a lecture to the Royal Institution in 1854 (Randell, W.L., "Michael Faraday", Leonard Parsons (London), and Small, Maynard & Co., (Boston, USA). 1924, pp. 149-150.), he said
'"I believe that as a man is placed above the creatures round him, there is a higher and far more exalted position within his view; and the ways are infinite in which he occupies his thoughts about the fears, or hope, or expectations, of a future life. I believe that the truth of that future cannot be brought to his knowledge by any exertion of his mental powers, however exalted they may be; that it is made known to him by other teaching than his own; it is received through simple belief of the testimony given. Let no one suppose, for an instant, that the self-education I am about to commend, in respect of the things of this life, extends to any considerations of the hope set before us, as if man by reasoning could find out God. It would be improper here to enter upon this subject further than to claim an absolute distinction between religious and ordinary belief. I shall be reproached with the weakness of refusing to apply these mental operations which I think good in respect of high things to the very highest. I am content to bear the reproach ... I have never seen anything incompatible between those things of man which can be known by the spirit of man that is within him and those higher things concerning his future, which he cannot know by that spirit.'"
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