Allan Sandage discovered the first quasar, calculated the value of Hubble’s constant, and made the first plausible determination of the age of the universe. He also lived just a few blocks from the house in which I grew up — something that I learned only a few weeks before he died. I had read about him for years. How I wish that I had been able to meet him!
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.
Allan Sandage (d. in San Gabriel, California, 2010), American astronomer
Posted from Terricciola, Italy
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