“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality the scientists cannot dispense with”

Max Planck

“Faith, if it be mere belief, is as a pendulum swinging between nothing and something, having no fixity. Faith, advanced to spiritual understanding, is the evidence gained from Spirit [meaning God], which rebukes sin of every kind and establishes the claims of God.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p23

“faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen… Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

Hebrews 11:1, 3

“Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. … This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things brought to light.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 505

“Scientism adds to science two corollaries: first, that the scientific method is, if not the only reliable method of getting at truth, then at least the most reliable method; and second, that the things science deals with – material entities – are the most fundamental things that exist. These two corollaries are seldom voiced, for once they are brought to attention it is not difficult to see that they are arbitrary. Unsupported by facts they are at best philosophical assumptions and at worst merely opinions.”

Huston Smith – “Why religion matters”

“…it cannot be said too often that the issue between science and religion is not between facts and values. That issue enters, but derivatively. The fundamental issue is about facts, period – the entire panoply of facts as gestalted by worldviews.”

Huston Smith – “Why Religion Matters”

“The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 207

“Many would hold that, from the broad philosophical standpoint, the outstanding achievement of twentieth-century physics is not the theory of relativity with its welding together of space and time, or the theory of quanta with its present apparent negation of the laws of causation, or the dissection of the atom with the resultant discovery that things are not what they seem; it is the general recognition that we are not yet in contact with ultimate reality.”

Sir James Jeans – The Myserious Universe

“…with the arrival of Kuhn’s account of scientific paradigms the case can be made that the way was open not only for the theories of science to look uncertain but also for the facts and observations on which they rested to be placed in jeopardy. The archetype of a fact, found in the strict and supposedly precise observations of science was itself to come under scrutiny and come to be seen by some, not as an accurate description of an independent reality but as itself the product of a particular model and a particular conceptual framework.”

Hiliary Lawson

“What are termed natural science and material laws are the objective states of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 484

“Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 96

“One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.”

Albert Einstein

“I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 109

“Nothing is more antagonistic to Christian Science than a blind belief without understanding, for such a belief hides Truth and builds on error.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 83

“Christian Science is natural, but not physical. The Science of God and man is no more supernatural than is the science of numbers, though departing from the realm of the physical, as the Science of God, Spirit, must, some may deny its right to the name of Science.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 111

“Our Master taught no mere theory, doctrine, or belief. It was the divine Principle of all real being which he taught and practised. His proof of Christianity was no form or system of religion and worship, but Christian Science, working out the harmony of Life and Love.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 26

“The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: “I am the way, the truth, and the life;” “I and my Father are one.” This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 26

“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 332

“Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual evidence, contradicting the testimony of material sense, begins to appear, and Truth, the ever-present, is becoming understood. Human thoughts have their degrees of comparison. Some thoughts are better than others. A belief in Truth is better than a belief in error, but no mortal testimony is founded on the divine rock. Mortal testimony can be shaken. Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 297

“…we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

I Corinthians 2:12-14

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

John 14:12

“You can prove for yourself, dear reader, the Science of healing, and so ascertain if the author has given you the correct interpretation of Scripture.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 547

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clark

“Miracles are impossible in Science, and here Science takes issue with popular religions. The scientific manifestation of power is from the divine nature and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, including man, is governed in general by material laws, but that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, – this belief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 83

“MIRACLE. That which is divinely natural, but must be learned humanly; a phenomenon of Science.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 591

“Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 476

“Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen to be supported by sensible evidence, until its divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen, no other conclusion can be reached.”

Mary Baker Eddy – Science & Health p 109

“We have found that where science has progressed the furthest, the mind has but regained from nature what the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And Lo! it is our own.”

Sir Arthur Eddington

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