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Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Warren Weaver
God, Science, Discovery
Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver
Ignorance, Science, Views
"A Scientist Ponders Faith". Saturday Review, 3, January 1959. "The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition". Book by F. A. Hayek, edited by ‎Ronald Hamowy, p. 77, 2013.

One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

Warren Weaver
Average, Probability Theory, Understanding
Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation

Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Warren Weaver
Pain, Airplane, Science

Science is not gadgetry.

Warren Weaver
Science
Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

Warren Weaver
Doors, Two, Rooms

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Warren Weaver
Animal, People, Religion
Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

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