Theosis

Portrait of Orson Pratt

Orson Pratt

The study of science is the study of something eternal. If we study astronomy, we study the works of God. If we study chemistry, geology, optics, or any other branch of science, every new truth we come to the understanding of is eternal; it is a part of the great system of universal truth. It is truth that exists throughout universal nature; and God is the dispenser of all truth—scientific, religious, and political.

Journal of Discourses 157
Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, Liverpool, England, 1860, speech