Geoffrey Burbidge quotes

Geoffrey Burbidge quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.”
-- Geoffrey Burbidge

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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
“As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
“CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.”
“Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.”
“When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.”
“Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.”
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

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