True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree β 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.
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.
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