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“In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.”

“The barrier has begun to yield.”

Astronomy Barriers Yield Cosmology

Book:Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

Source: Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

“The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.”

Lying Astronomy Enormous Cosmology Spirals Solar System Velocity Insensible

Book:Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...

Source: Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...

“The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.”

May Space Effects Possibility Relation Distance Astronomy Data Discussion Features Outstanding Cosmology Velocity

Book:Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts

Source: Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts

“On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.”

May Hands Left Sides Fields Universal Fundamentals Constant Add Astronomy Destroying Equations Cosmology Left Hand

Author:Albert Einstein

“Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.”

Feels Should Believe Helping Term Conscience Ugly Astronomy Cosmology Ugly Things

Author:Albert Einstein

“On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.”

Two Ideas Reason Bigs Seems Process Term Direct Sight Philosophical Notion Astronomy Observation Appeals Assumption Irrational Bangs Cosmology

Book:The nature of the universe

Source: The nature of the universe

“When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.”

Order Energy Stars Sun Source Mass Heavy Dues Astronomy Radiation Collapse Exhausted Cosmology Contractions Rotation Fission Nuclear Fission

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.”

Light Black Periods Astronomy Holes Horizon Infinity Regimes Persist Cosmology Black Hole

Author:Stephen Hawking

“There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.”

Believe May Has Beens Reason Numbers Quality Mass Ordinary Astronomy Factors Galaxy Cosmology Underestimated

Author:Jeremiah P. Ostriker

“Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.”

Ifs Heart Existence Serious Cold Astronomy Cages Jewels Ruthless Cosmology Serious Business Sifting

Author:Dennis Overbye

“Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.”

Men Can Do Teach Humility Astronomy Cosmology

Book:Report on Planet Three

Source: Report on Planet Three

“Billions and billions.”

Billions Astronomy Cosmology

Book:Carl Sagan: a life

Source: Carl Sagan: a life

“I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.”

Earth Fall Can Do Areas Surface Strikes Astronomy Miles Squares Rays Inches Cosmology Starlight

Book:Signals from the Stars

Source: Signals from the Stars

“We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.”

Needs Drink Sacraments Cosmology

Author:Patti Smith

“There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.”

“We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.”

“Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.”

Thinking Way Doe Past Lying Humanity Universe Roles Sun One Thing Astronomy Perceive Halfway Cosmology Astronomy And Universe

Author:Martin Rees

“What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.”

Ifs Wells Art Courses Century Pure Criticism Phrases What If Nineteenth Century Cosmology Exact Sciences

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.”

Force Term Theory Bases Structure Strings Relativity Cosmology Cornerstones Forces Of Nature Astrophysics String Theory General Relativity Conceptual Thinking

Author:Paul Davies

“Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.”

Giving Universe Black Theory Capable Holes Cosmology Black Hole

Author:Robert Nozick

“I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.”

Geography Cosmology Meteorology

Author:Randy Newman

“A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Limits Capacity Males Cosmology Full Potential

Book:When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm

Source: When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm

“For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.”

Enough Belief Secret Fundamentals Physics Aliens Pale Cosmology Wonderland Insignificance Abduction Unlocking Alien Abduction

Author:Paul Davies

“Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.”

Believe Kind Use Games Existence Cases Fine Argument Bases Strikes Contemporary Traditional Cosmology Existence Of God Tuning Fine Tuning

Author:Julian Baggini

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