Chapter 82—Working With Science
Information, Power, Goodness, and Character—True educa-
tion does not ignore the value of scientific knowledge or literary ac-
quirements; but above information it values power; above power,
goodness; above intellectual acquirements, character. The world does
not so much need men of great intellect as of noble character. It needs
men in whom ability is controlled by steadfast principle.—
Education,
225
(1903).
God the Author of Science—God is the author of science. Scien-
tific research opens to the mind vast fields of thought and information,
enabling us to see God in His created works.
Ignorance may try to support skepticism by appealing to science;
but instead of upholding skepticism, true science contributes fresh
evidences of the wisdom and power of God. Rightly understood,
science and the written word agree, and each sheds light on the other.
Together they lead us to God by teaching us something of the wise
and beneficent laws through which He works.—
Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students, 426
(1913).
Religion and Science—True knowledge is divine. Satan insin-
uated into the minds of our first parents a desire for a speculative
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knowledge, whereby he declared they would greatly improve their
condition; but in order to gain this, they must take a course contrary to
God’s holy will, for God would not lead them to the greatest heights.
It was not God’s purpose that they should obtain knowledge that had
its foundation in disobedience. This was a broad field into which Satan
was seeking to lead Adam and Eve, and it is the same field that he
opens for the world today by his temptations....
The great reason why so few of the world’s great men and those
having a college education are led to obey the commandments of God
is that they have separated education from religion, thinking that each
should occupy a field by itself. God presented a field large enough
to perfect the knowledge of all who should enter it. This knowledge
was obtained under divine supervision; it was bound about with the
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