The Physical Sciences were invented by the Catholic priests who were devoted to the study of nature and the universe as a way of seeking the nature of the Lord.
It was though the study of the divine order was the best way to infer the the divine nature.
The entire Scientific Method was developed by various orders of the Catholic Church as a tool to eliminate human prejudice and error from their quest for the truth in their search for the nature of the Lord.
Many of the most influential early scientists were religious zealots, chief among them Sir Issac Newton.
That will come as a surprise to the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks. One of the greatest physicists of all time, Archimedes, died two and half centuries before anything remotely resembling a Catholic priest.
The entire Scientific Method was developed by various orders of the Catholic Church
Ironic in a post about the Church "not being hostile to science" that you'd say this. There was no really sensible version of the scientific method until Galileo Galilei. He was not a priest. Had he not been a personal friend of the Pope's, he probably would have been burned alive.
More primitive versions predate Christianity, and in other cultures less complete versions than Galileo grew up completely without any Christian influence.
Many of the most influential early scientists were religious zealots, chief among them Sir Issac Newton.
Newton believed in the Arian heresy. He called Trinitarianism: "the greatest of all apostasy."