Georges Lemaître was a jesuit priest and theoretical physicist. He was the first person to come up with the idea of an expanding universe from a "primeval atom" (what we would recognise as Big Bang Theory, but in a primitive form) . In an interview he was asked how he could reconcile his role in the church and his role as a theoretical physicist and particularly in light of his theory of the expanding universe. He is reported to have answered

"Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes"

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The path to good scholarship is paved with imagined patterns. - David M Raup