Experimenters Are The Shock Troops Of Science.

A Scientific Truth Does Not Triumph By Convincing Its Opponents And Making Them See The Light, But Rather Because Its Opponents Eventually Die And A New Generation Grows Up That Is Familiar With It.

Both Religion And Natural Science Require A Belief In God For Their Activities, To The Former He Is The Starting Point, And To The Latter The Goal Of Every Thought Process. To The Former He Is The Foundation, To The Latter, The Crown Of The Edifice Of Every Generalized World View.

The Man Who Cannot Occasionally Imagine Events And Conditions Of Existence That Are Contrary To The Causal Principle As He Knows It Will Never Enrich His Science By The Addition Of A New Idea.

Those [scientists] Who Dislike Entertaining Contradictory Thoughts Are Unlikely To Enrich Their Science With New Ideas.

There Can Never Be Any Real Opposition Between Religion And Science; For The One Is The Complement Of The Other. Every Serious And Reflective Person Realizes, I Think, That The Religious Element In His Nature Must Be Recognized And Cultivated If All The Powers Of The Human Soul Are To Act Together In Perfect Balance And Harmony. And Indeed It Was Not By Accident That The Greatest Thinkers Of All Ages Were Deeply Religious Souls