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Quotes & Thinkers in Astrophysics

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🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

"Topology and number theory are my faves."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete."

"I myself can think of a dozen ways to annihilate all living persons within one hour."

"Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge — and a very good dodge too."

"Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence."

"All of us have direct experience of the Supreme."

"When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures."

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🇷🇺Khabibullo Abdusamatov

Science

b. 1940

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🇺🇸Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Science

1924–2008

"I may be a minority of one in advocating that one should NOT separate science and politics—partly because I am old enough to remember the Weimar Republic before 1934..."

"You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps."

"Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting."

"We were marching down the street, and we were at the head of the troops. We went on marching, and the troops went off to the left."

"If poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, then science is tranquility recollected in emotion: a struggle to think carefully in the swirl of passionate curiosity."

"A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse."

"Your waistline may be spreading but you can't blame it on the expansion of the universe."

🇺🇸Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science

agnosticism

b. 1958

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

"Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important."

"But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand."

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