Nigel Calder Quotes
- Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
- The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
- The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of…
- But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise…
- The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
- Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush…