'Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.'

'I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth,…

'The difference between myth and science is the difference between divine inspiration of `unaided reason' on the one hand and theories developed in observation…

'I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way back…

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do…

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs the other might as well be on drugs.

'The exploration of both the micro and the macro cosmos, is a song to God's glory, which is reflected in everything in the universe.'