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

  Reality, Order, Religion

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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

  Song, Faithful, Intuition

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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

  Mean, Intelligent, America

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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

  Intuition, Looks, Logic

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

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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

  Brilliant, Theology, Physicist

  "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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• Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Soul, Matter, Tentacles

  "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

  Writing, Names, People

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