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Bible
“The heavens declare the glory of God”
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“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
— Bible
Psalm 19:1
This quote is the first line from Psalm 19, on a background that is the famous Hubble Space Telescope image known as “The Pillars of Creation,” taken in 1995. The giant pillars are in fact light years in length, made of hydrogen and dust. These are stellar nurseries, in which new stars are being formed.
The quote above is in the words of the translation made for the King James Bible published in 1611.
Some alternative translations include:
The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. —Bible in Basic English
The heavens declare the glory of God, the dome of the sky speaks the work of his hands. —Complete Jewish Bible
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. —English Standard Version
The heavens tell the glory of God, and the skies announce what his hands have made. —New Century Version
The heavens tell of the glory of God. The skies display his marvelous craftsmanship. —New Living Translation
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. —World English Bible
Psalm 19, verse 1 from the King James Bible (translated 1611), as in
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1709), 347.
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Bible - context of quote “The heavens declare the glory of God” - Large image (800 x 600 px)
Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away her wrath. (1882) --
Nathaniel Egleston, who was writing then about deforestation, but speaks equally well about the danger of climate change today.
Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. (1987) ...
(more by Sagan) Albert Einstein: I used to wonder how it comes about that the electron is negative. Negative-positive—these are perfectly symmetric in physics. There is no reason whatever to prefer one to the other. Then why is the electron negative? I thought about this for a long time and at last all I could think was “It won the fight!” ...
(more by Einstein) Richard Feynman: It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly. ...
(more by Feynman)