"But every day I go to work I'm……" — George Smoot
"But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand."
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13 Quotes by George Smoot
George Smoot has 13 quotes on this site.
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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of…
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The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era…
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I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some…
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When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular…
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My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be…
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I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like…
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For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be…
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The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life…
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More Aesthetically Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
— Ben Barnes
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
— Emile Chartier
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what…
— Aldo Leopold
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
— Suzanne Vega
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
— Edith Schaeffer
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I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it…
— Sam Maloof
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
— Alex Grey
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