--- title: "2 Mario Livio Quotes - Famous Astronomer" description: "Romanian-born Israeli–American astrophysicist (born 1945)... | Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/mario-livio-103373_fine-structure-const_the-strength-of-the-familiar-electromagn_172145.jpg" --- # Mario Livio (1945) Astronomer **2** quotes in **16** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Mario Livio is an astronomer. ## Quick Facts About Mario Livio Born January 1, 1945 Profession Astronomer ## About Mario Livio Romanian-born Israeli–American astrophysicist (born 1945)... \| Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. ## Quotes by Mario Livio > [“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-livio/the-strength-of-the-familiar-electromagnetic-force-between-two/) [Mario Livio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-livio/) [Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dirac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/mario-livio-103373_fine-structure-const_the-strength-of-the-familiar-electromagn_172145.jpg) > [“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-livio/some-of-the-greatest-mathematical-minds-of-all-ages-from-pythagoras/) [Mario Livio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-livio/) [Ancient greece](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-greece/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/mario-livio-103373_ancient-greece_some-of-the-greatest-mathematical-minds_3215536.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-livio/#itemlist", "name": "Mario Livio Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant, almost exactly 1/137, has puzzled many generations of physicists. A joke made about the famous English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), one of the founders of quantum mechanics, says that upon arrival to heaven he was allowed to ask God one question. 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But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. 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