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“Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.”
-- Nigel Calder

#Government #Trying #Scientist

“The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.”
-- Nigel Calder

#Discovery #Agitation #Arguing
“The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).”
-- Nigel Calder

#Unity #Patterns #Belief
“But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.”
-- Nigel Calder

#Men #May #Firsts
“The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”
-- Nigel Calder

#War #Ice #Age
“Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.”
-- Nigel Calder

#Mother #Running #Stars

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