Discovery Quote by Rainer Weiss

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“By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.”

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Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

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We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a thing that…

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We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make…

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It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through…

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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…

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The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved…

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,…

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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

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That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow…

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When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds…

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

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