A thought on the faith of the scientist
"The scientist's condition as a sentinel in the modern world, as one
who is the first to glimpse the enormous complexity together with
the marvellous harmony of reality, makes him a privileged witness
of the plausibility of religion, a man capable of showing how the
admission of transcendence, far from harming the autonomy and the
ends of research, rather stimulates it to continually surpass
itself in an experience of self-transcendence which reveals the
human mystery".
- Pope John Paul II, 7/17/85.