Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
Stephen Jay GouldGoethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
Stephen Jay GouldHonorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
Stephen Jay GouldIf genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
Stephen Jay Gould