Quotes from Francis S. Collins

Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo. En cambio, como lo empezaba a comprender al mirar dentro de mi propio corazón, la evidencia de la existencia de Dios tenía que llegar de otra dirección, y

Nearly all of the atoms in your body were once cooked in the nuclear furnace of an ancient supernova—you are truly made of stardust.

Apesar de ser crente à vinte e oito anos a Lei Moral ainda continua a ser, para mim, o maior sinal que aponta para Deus. Mais do que isso: aponta para um Deus que se preocupa com os seres humanos, para um Deus que é infinitamente bom e sagrado. p.169

A ciência sem religião é coxa, a religião sem a ciência é cega.' Alber Einstein (1941). p.176

Those distractions combine with a desire to avoid considering our own mortality, so that days, weeks, months, or even years can easily pass where no serious consideration is given to the eternal questions of human existence.

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

Would not intentional restrictions on the progress of life-saving science, simply to allow ethics to "catch up," be themselves unethical?

I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a cliff, but I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth.

Science is simply mankind trying to understand the greatness of God's design.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that can happen on a grand scale. But most of the time it happens in simple acts of kindness of one person to another. Those are the events that really matter.

Si Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

I do not believe that the God who created all the universe, and who communes with His people through prayer and spiritual insight, would expect us to deny the obvious truths of the natural world that science has revealed to us, in order to prove our love for Him.

Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.

Arno Penzias, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who codiscovered the cosmic microwave background radiation that provided strong support for the Big Bang in the first place, states, "The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five Books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error

Studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental risks are pinpointing critical parts of our health that derive from environmental variables.

Today, we have discovered that everyone is born with dozens of genetic glitches. There are no perfect human specimens. But not all our glitches are the same, so one treatment often does not fit all sufferers of a given disease.

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility.