Guy Consolmagno quotes

“Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

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“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

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“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

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“Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

Source : "Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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“Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

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“A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

Source : Guy Consolmagno (2000). “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist”, McGraw Hill Professional

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“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

Source : "Pope Francis Says He Would Baptise Aliens: 'Who Are We to Close Doors?'". www.independent.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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“One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on the same screen. Today, Internet chat rooms work on the same principle. One of the remarkable new features of this page was that you could log in with an invented name, and pretend you were anyone you wanted - any name, any age, any gender. One favorite trick was to log in using the name of someone else already logged into the page, simply to confuse everyone else.”
-- Guy Consolmagno

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“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“What's my favourite food? One you order out.”

“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.”

“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”

“I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.”

“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”