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

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

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.

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

The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

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.