"There is something which always moves the things that are in motion, and the first mover is itself unmoved."

"One actuality always precedes another in time right back to the actuality of the eternal prime mover."

"The infinite has no beginning, ... but seems to be the beginning of other things, and to surround all things and guide all ... And this is the divine, for it is immortal and indestructible."

-Aristotle

 

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

-Galileo Galilei

 

"...Every common biological organism is more intricately articulated, more astoundingly put together, than the most sublime literary composition... Despite all evasions, the ultimate agency of intelligence stares one in the face."

-Frederick Ferre

 

"The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose."

"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something behind it all.... It seems as though somebody has fined tuned nature's numbers to make the universe....The impression of design is overwhelming"

-Paul Davies, Physicist

 

"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that when in a decade, century or millennium, we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been blind for so long?"

-John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist