Robert Jastrow

Dr. Robert Jastrow (September 7, 1925 – February 8, 2008) was an American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist.

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• At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greated by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
  • God and the Astronomers (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), p. 107. (p. 116 in the '78 edition)
• The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms
  • Reg Giants and White Dwarfs (By Robert Jastrow, 1979, P. 249)