Gerald Schroeder > Quotes

“The real question is why is there “being”? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“The mystery that remains in the sunset is the riddle of why and how a mixture of seemingly inert, unthinking atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and several other varieties can produce humans capable of having the subjective experience we refer to as beauty, or the love that would have us kiss our kids good night. Science is no closer to answering those questions today than it was a century ago.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life’s material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“The further philosophical problem of there having been a beginning arises with the idea that the beginning of our universe marks the beginning of time, space, and matter. Before our universe came into being, there is every scientific indication that time did not exist. Whatever brought the universe into existence must of course predate the universe, which in turn means that whatever brought the universe into existence must predate time. That which predates time is not bound by time. Not inside of time. In other words, it is eternal. If the laws of physics, or at least some aspect of the laws of physics, did the job of creation, those laws by necessity are eternal.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“We can say the word “metaphysical,” meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“The claim in Psalms that “the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works” (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Psalms 90:4: “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.”
― Gerald Schroeder, Genesis One: A physicist Looks at Creation

“Peter 3:8: “Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.”
― Gerald Schroeder, Genesis One: A physicist Looks at Creation

“According to our best understanding of the universe and equally according to the most ancient commentaries on the book of Genesis, there was only one physical creation. Science refers to it as the big bang. The Bible calls it the creation of the heavens and the earth. Every physical object in this vast universe, including our human bodies, is built of the light of creation.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Why is there an “is”? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Now if there is anything in this universe for which we do not have an "inkling," it is the ultimate goal of the Creator. Erroneous notions regarding this goal often stem from the misconception that all existence exists for man alone. The foible in this perception of the universe is the failure to realize that existence itself is good. The Five Books of Moses are bracketed by explicit statements of the worth of being. At the start we are told: "And God saw all that was made and behold it was very good" (Gen. 1:31)”
― Gerald Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible

“Psalm 19:1 declares: “The heavens proclaim the glory of God; the sky declares His handiwork.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep purple, and finally embraces the black of night as Earth’s rotation”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“In laboratories, we can see the results of experiments but we can’t follow the reactions that lead to those results. The paths of those reactions may reside outside the physical measurements of length, width, height, and time. Physics has entered the metaphysical, the realm beyond the physically perceivable, in the fullest sense of that word.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“My hope is that we can leave behind preconceived notions and search for what the world and the Bible actually tell us about the God of creation.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“In all known life, there are primarily twenty different amino acids. Stringing these twenty amino acids together in varied sequences produces varied proteins, just as intelligently stringing together the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet in varied sequences will produce varied sentences and sonnets.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.”
― Gerald Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible

“The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom

“The lack of repetition has not stopped scientists from speculating on the causes of the two most fundamental phenomena crucial to our existence: the big-bang creation of the universe and the origin of life from nonliving matter. Were these miracles? After all, they were both onetime events.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Gravity is always attractive.”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

“The joy and the grief we encounter on our journey are not always the direct workings of God, which of course means that we too are partners in the making of our world.”
― Gerald Schroeder, God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”
― Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth