ABSTRACT

Appleton, Sir Edward . . . the history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas which lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

Bernal, J.D. The whole history of modern science, has been that of a struggle between ideas derived from observation and practice, and pre-conceptions derived from religious training. It was not . . . that Science had to fight an external enemy, the Church; it was that the Church itself-its dogmas, its whole way of conceiving the universe-was within the scientists themselves . . . After Newton, God ruled the visible world by means of Immutable Laws of Nature, set in action by one creative impulse, but He ruled the moral world by means of absolute intimations of moral sanctions, implanted in each individual soul, reinforced and illuminated by Revelation and the Church . . . The role of God in the material world has been reduced stage by stage with the advance of Science, so much so that He only survives in the vaguest mathematical form in the minds of older physicists and biologists.