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Science is seen to be just one more of those great flights of altar stairs that lead through darkness up to God.

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Science needs religion, to prevent it from becoming a curse to mankind instead of a blessing.

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Science sees meaning in every part; religion sees meaning in the whole.

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Religion needs science, to protect it from religion's greatest danger, superstition.

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Edgar J. Goodspeed

Edgar J. Goodspeed

Born: October 23, 1871
Died: January 13, 1962 (aged 90)
Bio: Edgar Johnson Goodspeed was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches. The University's collection is now named in his honor.
Known for:
  1. Strange New Gospels (1931)
  2. The Story of the New Testament (1916)
  3. The Story of the Apocrypha (1939)
  4. The Formation of the New Testament (1926)
  5. How to Read the Bible (1946)

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