Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (ed. Prometheus Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9781616141202