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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