Allan Sandage Quotes

• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

  Allan Sandage

  God, Science, Order

  "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

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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.

  Allan Sandage

  Science, Understanding, World

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• The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.

  Allan Sandage

  Order, Together, World

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• We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.

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  Way, Clear, Universe

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• Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

  Allan Sandage

  Self, Progress, Process

  Interview with Alan Lightman, www.aip.org. January 11, 1989.

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• All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova

  Allan Sandage

  Brother, Humans, Supernova

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