“Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. ”

“The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.”

“Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.”

“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided ...”

“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.”

“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.”

“Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.”

“Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough insi...”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”