Allan Sandage on science and faith

Allan Sandage on science and faith July 31, 2015

 

Observatory at Mt. Palomar
Mount Palomar Observatory, California
(Click to enlarge.)
Dr. Sandage did much of his work here and at Mount Wilson Observatory, which I saw almost every day while growing up.

 

Allan Sandage (1926-2010) was one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century.  A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the leading protégé of Edwin Hubble, he discovered the first quasar and was the first to determine reasonably accurate values for the “Hubble constant” and for the age of the Universe.

 

Later in his life, he became a fairly outspoken Christian.

 

This is what Sandage said.  This is what Allan Sandage said:

 

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

 

Posted from Victoria, British Columbia

 

 


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