Mount Palomar Observatory, California
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Dr. Sandage did much of his work here and at Mount Wilson Observatory, which I saw almost every day while growing up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allan Sandage (1926-2010) was one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century. \u00a0A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the leading prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Edwin Hubble, he discovered the first quasar and was the first to determine reasonably accurate values for the \u201cHubble constant\u201d and for the age of the Universe.<\/p>\n
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Later in his life, he became a fairly outspoken Christian.<\/p>\n
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This is what Sandage said. \u00a0This is what Allan Sandage said:<\/p>\n
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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.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posted from Victoria, British Columbia<\/p>\n
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