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Brian Schmidt

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[Wikipedia] Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for h

Quotes by Brian Schmidt

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one…

Able

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I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point…

Certain

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If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

Causes

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The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

Beautiful

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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in…

Am

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Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

Ability

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I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do…

Agnostic

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I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I…

Bang

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Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Expansion

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Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making…

About

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Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and…

Absolute

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I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know -…

Art

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