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Jacques Derrida

Philosophy

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

Philosophy

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Laozi

Philosophy

We had this antenna that was built for satellite communication, and we were using it for radio astronomy, and it was picking up this annoying hiss.

Robert Wilson

Cosmology

When you're doing science, you're not looking for something specific. You're looking for something new.

Arno Penzias

Cosmology

The universe is a beautiful, elegant, and surprisingly simple place, if you look at it the right way.

Neil Turok

Cosmology

Our universe is not just 'described' by mathematics, it 'is' mathematics.

Max Tegmark

Cosmology

The universe is a beautiful, complex, and mysterious place, and we are just beginning to understand its secrets.

David Spergel

Cosmology

The universe is a cosmic laboratory, and we are its curious observers, constantly refining our understanding of its fundamental laws.

Joseph Silk

Cosmology

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

John Barrow

Cosmology

The universe is not just a collection of things; it's a collection of things that are connected in a very particular way.

Jim Peebles

Cosmology

The universe is not necessarily what we think it is. It's much more interesting than that.

Paul Steinhardt

Cosmology

Inflationary cosmology is a very beautiful and powerful theory, but it is not yet a complete theory. We still have many questions to answer.

Andrei Linde

Cosmology

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Martin Rees

Cosmology

The early universe was hot, dense, and expanding. This is the fundamental premise of the Big Bang theory.

Ralph Alpher

Cosmology

The universe is a big place, and the atoms in it are very small. But the laws of physics are the same everywhere.

George Gamow

Cosmology

The general theory of relativity has opened up new possibilities for the structure of the universe, which were unthinkable before.

Willem de Sitter

Cosmology

The universe is not static; it is expanding.

Alexander Friedmann

Cosmology

The divine substance is not only in the whole, but in every part.

Giordano Bruno

Cosmology

I was told that women couldn't be astronomers, but I didn't believe it.

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge

Astronomy