This quote is written / told by James Van Allen between September 7, 1914 and August 9, 2006. He/she was a famous Physicist from USA.
The author also have 2 other quotes.
"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"
"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"