Can Science Explain Everything? Quotes

“Of course, I reject atheism because I believe Christianity to be true. But I also reject it because I am a scientist. How could I be impressed with a worldview that undermines the very rationality we need to do science? Science and God mix very well. It is science and atheism that do not mix.”
― John C. Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“If science and God do not mix, there would be no Christian Nobel Prize winners. In fact, between 1901 and 2000 over 60% of Nobel Laureates were Christians.
According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (2005) by Baruch Aba Shalev, a review of Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes). Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all the Nobel Prizes in Peace, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“I have always tried to treat people with different worldviews from my own with respect, and to find out how they arrived at their position, and why they feel so passionately about it.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“Fijémonos cuidadosamente en lo que dice Hawking: “Dado que existe una ley como la de la gravedad…” (es decir, dado que existe algo) “el universo… se creará a sí mismo partiendo de la nada”. Hawking da por hecho que existe la ley de la gravedad. Esto no es “nada”, de modo que cae en una flagrante contradicción.”
― John C. Lennox, ¿Puede la ciencia explicarlo todo? (Diálogo entre fe y cultura)

“Marxism adopted this Freudian view that religion was the opium of the people. But those who experienced the repressions of life under Marxist totalitarian states understood the flip side of the argument. The Polish Nobel Laureate for Literature Czesław Miłosz wrote: A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death—the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged. If God does exist, then, following Freud, atheism can be seen as a psychological escape-mechanism by which we avoid taking ultimate moral responsibility for our own lives. What Freud clearly fails to do is to answer the question of whether God exists or not.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“At the beginning of his famous TV series, Cosmos, the American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan said, “The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be”. That is not a statement of science, to be put in the same category as, for example, the scientific statement that gravity obeys an inverse-square law. Sagan’s statement is simply an expression of his atheistic belief. The problem is, many people give to all statements by scientists the authority rightly due to science, simply because they are stated by a scientist.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“The common belief that ... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility ... is not only historically inaccurate but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?

“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.”
― John C Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?