210 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



fit to change the name of the subject of their search. 

 Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Leibnitz and the 

 rest did not merely believe in God in an orthodox sort 

 of way, they beheved that their work told humanity 

 more about God than had ever been known before. 

 Their incentive in working at all was a desire to know 

 God, and they regarded their discoveries as not only 

 proving his existence, but as revealing more and more 

 of his nature. If men had not wanted to know more 

 about God, it is highly doubtful if they would have 

 worried to know about nature. The key to the lives 

 and labors of these men was their invariable thirst 

 for religious truth. This was the first and greatest 

 of the human thirsts; there were others such as the 

 thirst for eternal life, the thirst for perfect health, 

 the thirst for knowledge of the future and the thirst 

 for unlimited wealth. Whatever further incentive 

 science required beyond the thirst after God, was 

 found in the existence of these other thirsts. 



The philosopher's stone, the elixir of life, the proph- 

 etic virtues of astrology gave birth to the sciences. 

 Although not one single human thirst has been as- 

 suaged, the gallant attempt to do so has, quite with- 

 out forethought, produced a power which is able to 

 say to men, "Whosoever drinketh of my cup shall 

 never thirst again." 



We die at seventy after much disease and long after 

 youth has faded. We are poor and lonely and know 

 not what Is to come. But, if we can learn to under- 

 stand the value of science pursued for itself alone, we 

 can be perfectly content. Few people have been so 

 happy as the scientists. 



