"When I came to Berkeley, I met all……" — George Smoot
"When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me."
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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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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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