A great example of blending science and religion was Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), a Belgian Catholic priest, physicist, and astronomer who made significant contributions to the field of cosmology. He is best known for proposing the theory of the expansion of the universe, which later became known as the Big Bang theory. Born on July 17, 1894, in Charleroi, Belgium, Lemaître studied engineering, mathematics, and physics before being ordained as a priest in 1923. Science attempts to understand how the Universe works and religion should be about understanding why