My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious. — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
“The most distant quasars exist in a very young universe, barely a billion years old.” — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God’s crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can’t think of anything more trivial than… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known.… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
“Of all the material objects we know, quasars are closest to lucretius's javelin. Quasars are galaxies in early stage of evolution. The… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
