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.
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
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