Quotes from George Coyne

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.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

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.

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

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

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.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

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.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.