"For many centuries, humans have speculated that there……" — George Smoot
"For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas."
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13 Quotes by George Smoot
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a…
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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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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 Centuries Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of…
— Julie Burchill
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