“In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.” IfsKnowsMindStatesBigsUniverseTheoryBattleModelsAppreciateVersionsMathematicalRememberedPrimeSteadyInflationBangsRivalsIdenticalCosmologyAstronomers Author:Fred Hoyle
“Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos beamed back by all the other spunky li'l NASA robots, thus confirming suspicions that the universe has a LOT of rocks in it.” FunnyScienceUniverseLandRocksPhotographSuspicionRobotsIdenticalNasa Book:Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) Source: Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
“How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?” UniverseHeavenViewsIdenticalSpecksExpanse Author:Brian Greene
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.” ThinkingMindSoulWholeRememberUniverseIndividualKnowingConditionsObjectsActivityEternalFormerImmortalOne TimePassiveIdentical Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.” LawUniverseViewsChangedConversationProveResearchScientistStructureNuclearAcceptedPhysicsSeniorParticlesIdenticalLaws Of PhysicsParity Author:Chien-Shiung Wu
“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.” TryingLooksDoeHardUniverseAliveConcernedHungryFrightenedMotivatedIdenticalStaying AliveAlbatross Author:Carl Safina