Joseph Silk quotes

“The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : Joseph Silk (2008). “The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology”, p.10, OUP Oxford

#Distance Quotes #Mean Quotes #Space Quotes

“Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : Joseph Silk (2008). “The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology”, p.12, OUP Oxford

#Law Quotes #Chemistry Quotes #Physics Quotes

“Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

#Challenges Quotes #Belief Quotes #Creeds Quotes

“The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.”
-- Joseph Silk

#Perspective Quotes #Modern Quotes #Revelations Quotes

“Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

#Bangs Quotes #Four Quotes #Enough Quotes

“One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

#Months Quotes #Flavour Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.”
-- Joseph Silk

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

#Cosmology Quotes

“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

“But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.”

“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press

“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

“Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

“I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.”

“I always knew I was going to die in space.”