Aristotle Quote by George Smoot
“People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.”
“People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.”
![“Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]” quote by Fred Hoyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e64/fred-hoyle-11367_bangs_earlier-theories-were-based-on-the-hypot_791698.jpg)
![“I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. … It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years…” quote by Hannes Alfven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/006/hannes-alfven-29526_astrophysics_i-was-there-when-abbe-georges-lema-tre-f_3113329.jpg)
