Day Without Yesterday quote

If there is a connection, it’s a coincidence, and of no importance. And if you should prove to me that it exists, I would consider it unfortunate. It will merely encourage more thoughtless people to imagine that the Bible teaches infallible science, whereas the most we can say is that occasionally one of the prophets made a correct scientific guess.

Father P. Ernest Verreux, one of Lemaître’s teachers at College Saint Michel, referring to the use of the Bible as a source of science

The Day Without Yesterday, Lemaître Einstein and the birth of modern cosmology