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Biology Quotations & Scripture
Quotations
General
God is in the details.
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
Nature is the Art of God.
-Thomas Browne, philosopher and physician
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
-Saint Augustine
The works of the Lord are great; sought out of all those that have pleasure therein.
-Over the entrance to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
-William Blake
We are not to suppose that any truth concerning the natural world can be an enemy to religion; for Truth cannot
be an enemy to Truth, God is not divided against Himself.
-Thomas Burnet, cosmologist and theologist
Plato likened our perception of life to persons viewing shadows on a wall while unaware of the far grander
reality that produced those shadows. Science has revealed part of that larger reality. In the wonders of nature,
we have discovered the imprint of the metaphysical within the physical. As one who sees the wake of a boat
that has passed by, so we encounter the hidden face of God. And the hidden face is indeed grand in its
collective simplicity. We live in a time when finally we can begin to read the text that lies between the lines.
That text is yielding to us the secrets at which the written words had only hinted.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped…The people that walked in
darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelled in the land of images, upon them the light has shone. (Isaiah
35:5; 9:1)
-Gerald Shroeder, The Hidden Face of God
“And [Moses] said: show me please Your glory…And the Eternal said you cannot see My face for no human
can see Me and live…You will see My back but My face you shall not see.” (Exod. 33:18, 20, 23) God’s
back is the imprint of the Divine within the world.
-Gerald Shroeder, The Hidden Face of God
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections,
that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he
endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and knows all things
that happen or can happen.
-Isaac Newton
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple
laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
-Olympia Brown, First ordained American woman
Science and religion…are two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two, focusing
together, reveal the truth.
-Pearl S. Buck
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are
complementary.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
To progress, even to survive, we must learn to apply the truths of God to the direction of our science.
-Charles Lindbergh
The most miraculous thing is happening…The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they’ve really just
about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening.
God is showing through.
-John Updike
Nature has perfections, in order to show it is the image of God; and defects, to show that it is only His image.
-Blaise Pascal
Chemistry
The Atoms or Particles, which now constitute Heaven and Earth, could never without God have convened into
this present frame of things or any other like it.
-Richard Bentley (1693)
Creation
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon His creation, I should have recommended
something simpler.
-Alfonso X (1221-84), Spanish King and Astronomer
The science of the earth…invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of
the Creator.
-John William Dawson, geologist
These concepts reduce the whole universe to a world of light, potential or existent, so that the whole story of its
creation can be told with perfect accuracy and completeness in the six words: ‘God said, “Let there be light.’”
-James Hopwood James, physicist
Love all God's creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Species Diversity
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator’s hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give
existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of
relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of
destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect
for its Author is not inspired by this view of the universe!
–George-Louis Leclerc (1749), naturalist and philosopher
The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified the works of His hands, but has at the same time stamped
a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrate to us, that the whole is one family of one part.
-Erasmus Darwin, physician and naturalist
Game Theory
Pascal’s Wager: A game is on, at the other end of this infinite distance, and heads or tails will turn up. What
will you wager? According to reason you cannot leave either; according to reason you cannot leave either
undone…Yes, but wager you must; there is no option, you have embarked on it. So which will you have.
Come. Since you must choose, let us see what concerns you least. You have two things to lose: truth and
good, and two things to stake: your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness. And your
nature has two things to shun: error and misery. Your reason does not suffer by your choosing one more than
the other, for you must choose. That is one point cleared. But your happiness? Let us weigh gain and loss in
calling heads that God is. Reckon these two chances: if you win, you win all; if you lose, you lose naught.
Then do not hesitate, wager that He is.
–Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670), Section I, aphorism 223.
Conservation
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-
being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in
our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.
–John Wesley
We must be part not only of the human community, but of the whole community; we must acknowledge some
sort of oneness not only with our neighbors, our countrymen and our civilization, but also some respect for the
natural as well as for the man-made community. Ours is not only ‘one world’ in the sense usually implied by
that term. It is also ‘one earth.’ Without some acknowledgement of that fact, men can no more live
successfully than they can if they refuse to admit the political and economic interdependency of the various
sections of the civilized world. It is not a sentimental but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial
globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
-Joseph Wood Krutch, naturalist
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar.
-Bradley Miller
God is in the details.
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
Nature is the Art of God.
-Thomas Browne, philosopher and physician
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
-Saint Augustine
The works of the Lord are great; sought out of all those that have pleasure therein.
-Over the entrance to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
-William Blake
We are not to suppose that any truth concerning the natural world can be an enemy to religion; for Truth cannot
be an enemy to Truth, God is not divided against Himself.
-Thomas Burnet, cosmologist and theologist
Plato likened our perception of life to persons viewing shadows on a wall while unaware of the far grander
reality that produced those shadows. Science has revealed part of that larger reality. In the wonders of nature,
we have discovered the imprint of the metaphysical within the physical. As one who sees the wake of a boat
that has passed by, so we encounter the hidden face of God. And the hidden face is indeed grand in its
collective simplicity. We live in a time when finally we can begin to read the text that lies between the lines.
That text is yielding to us the secrets at which the written words had only hinted.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped…The people that walked in
darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelled in the land of images, upon them the light has shone. (Isaiah
35:5; 9:1)
-Gerald Shroeder, The Hidden Face of God
“And [Moses] said: show me please Your glory…And the Eternal said you cannot see My face for no human
can see Me and live…You will see My back but My face you shall not see.” (Exod. 33:18, 20, 23) God’s
back is the imprint of the Divine within the world.
-Gerald Shroeder, The Hidden Face of God
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections,
that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he
endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and knows all things
that happen or can happen.
-Isaac Newton
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple
laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
-Olympia Brown, First ordained American woman
Science and religion…are two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two, focusing
together, reveal the truth.
-Pearl S. Buck
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are
complementary.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
To progress, even to survive, we must learn to apply the truths of God to the direction of our science.
-Charles Lindbergh
The most miraculous thing is happening…The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they’ve really just
about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening.
God is showing through.
-John Updike
Nature has perfections, in order to show it is the image of God; and defects, to show that it is only His image.
-Blaise Pascal
Chemistry
The Atoms or Particles, which now constitute Heaven and Earth, could never without God have convened into
this present frame of things or any other like it.
-Richard Bentley (1693)
Creation
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon His creation, I should have recommended
something simpler.
-Alfonso X (1221-84), Spanish King and Astronomer
The science of the earth…invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of
the Creator.
-John William Dawson, geologist
These concepts reduce the whole universe to a world of light, potential or existent, so that the whole story of its
creation can be told with perfect accuracy and completeness in the six words: ‘God said, “Let there be light.’”
-James Hopwood James, physicist
Love all God's creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Species Diversity
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator’s hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give
existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of
relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of
destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect
for its Author is not inspired by this view of the universe!
–George-Louis Leclerc (1749), naturalist and philosopher
The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified the works of His hands, but has at the same time stamped
a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrate to us, that the whole is one family of one part.
-Erasmus Darwin, physician and naturalist
Game Theory
Pascal’s Wager: A game is on, at the other end of this infinite distance, and heads or tails will turn up. What
will you wager? According to reason you cannot leave either; according to reason you cannot leave either
undone…Yes, but wager you must; there is no option, you have embarked on it. So which will you have.
Come. Since you must choose, let us see what concerns you least. You have two things to lose: truth and
good, and two things to stake: your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness. And your
nature has two things to shun: error and misery. Your reason does not suffer by your choosing one more than
the other, for you must choose. That is one point cleared. But your happiness? Let us weigh gain and loss in
calling heads that God is. Reckon these two chances: if you win, you win all; if you lose, you lose naught.
Then do not hesitate, wager that He is.
–Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670), Section I, aphorism 223.
Conservation
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-
being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in
our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.
–John Wesley
We must be part not only of the human community, but of the whole community; we must acknowledge some
sort of oneness not only with our neighbors, our countrymen and our civilization, but also some respect for the
natural as well as for the man-made community. Ours is not only ‘one world’ in the sense usually implied by
that term. It is also ‘one earth.’ Without some acknowledgement of that fact, men can no more live
successfully than they can if they refuse to admit the political and economic interdependency of the various
sections of the civilized world. It is not a sentimental but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial
globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
-Joseph Wood Krutch, naturalist
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar.
-Bradley Miller
The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
–Psalm 19:1
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth.
-Psalm 33:6
And God said, ‘Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly across the expanse of the sky.’
-Genesis 1:20
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out
of what was visible.
-Hebrews 11:3
…As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man’s fate is like that of the
animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same spirit; man has no
advantage over the animal.
-Ecclesiastes 3:18-19
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.
-Colossians 1:16
But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth,
and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of these does not know that the hand of the
Lord has done this? In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:7-9
He has made everything beautiful in His time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot
fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecc 3:11
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
-Romans 1:20
“The works of the Lord are great. To be pondered by all who love them.”
– Psalm 111:3
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them ... They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
-Isaiah 11:6-9
A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast.
-Proverbs 12:10
In that day I will make a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures
that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in
safety.
-Hosea 2:18
–Psalm 19:1
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth.
-Psalm 33:6
And God said, ‘Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly across the expanse of the sky.’
-Genesis 1:20
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out
of what was visible.
-Hebrews 11:3
…As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man’s fate is like that of the
animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same spirit; man has no
advantage over the animal.
-Ecclesiastes 3:18-19
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.
-Colossians 1:16
But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth,
and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of these does not know that the hand of the
Lord has done this? In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:7-9
He has made everything beautiful in His time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot
fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecc 3:11
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
-Romans 1:20
“The works of the Lord are great. To be pondered by all who love them.”
– Psalm 111:3
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them ... They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
-Isaiah 11:6-9
A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast.
-Proverbs 12:10
In that day I will make a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures
that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in
safety.
-Hosea 2:18
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