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

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.

I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.

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.

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

If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

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