The Holy Scientist

Winds of Change has a FANTASTIC post on religion and science. I encourage everyone to reat the entire post. Here is just one excerpt, about Dr. Mordecai Haffkine, a Jewish bacteriologist:

"The next year, 1889, Haffkine was invited to Paris to continue his research at the world-renowned Pasteur Institute. The day after his arrival, he was nailing something to the doorpost of his laboratory when Dr. Louis Pasteur stopped by to welcome him and asked him why he had begun renovating his laboratory so soon. Haffkine answered that it was a mezuzah, a quotation from the Torah that is nailed to the doorpost of a Jew’s living quarters or workplace.

"But in a laboratory, Dr. Haffkine? In a place of science?" Dr. Pasteur asked.

Dr. Haffkine answered, "Particularly in a place where we search for truth and need God's guidance in the quest."

"Particularly in a place where we search for truth" - because science is, at its core, about The Habit of Truth.

"...and need God's guidance in the quest."

To a believing Jew who saw Hashem as the prime mover and master of all Creation, and who commands his faithful to lift up the sick, how could it possibly be otherwise?