John J. Reilly Center // University of Notre Dame

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Welcome to the Reilly Center, the place
where science, technology, and society meet.

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Robert Goulding

The Reilly Center has announced historian Robert Goulding as its next Director.

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Reilly Center Mission

We promote the advancement of science and technology in the service of human dignity and the common good.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Rosalind Franklin

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
Marie Curie

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Erwin Schrödinger

“Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but the task of science.”
John Dewey

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”
Pope Benedict XVI

“Moral evaluation and scientific research must go hand in hand, and charity must animate them in a harmonious interdisciplinary whole.”