True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
Interpretation
Science and faith can coexist, with scientific discovery leading us closer to understanding God.
Pope Pius XII suggests that true scientific inquiry reveals deeper truths about God and the universe, implying that every scientific discovery is a step towards understanding divine nature. This perspective promotes harmony between faith and reason, illustrating that exploration and knowledge can enhance spiritual insight, as if each new insight is a door leading to a greater understanding of the divine.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of research, one might say, 'As Pope Pius XII noted, true science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree.'
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
To live without risk is to risk not living.
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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