"The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that’s how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan." - Henry F. Schaefer III, quantum chemist
"We must pay God the compliment of studying His work of art and this should apply to all realms of human thought. A refusal to use our intelligence honestly is an act of contempt for Him who gave us that intelligence." - Ernest Walton, Nobel laureate physicist
"It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion." - Paul Davies, physicist
"The best data we have [concerning the big bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole." - Arno Penzias, Nobel laureate physicist
"God is the creator and sustainer of the universe and of humankind, transcending the universe but immanent in it." - George F. R. Ellis, physicist
"Just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details...also suggests a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist." - Owen Gingerich, astronomer
