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“Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Î› rears its ugly head again and again and again.”
-- George Gamow

#Greek #Ugly #Letters
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
-- George Gamow

#Stars #Men #Years
“If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.”
-- George Gamow

#Running #Distance #Space
“Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.”
-- George Gamow

#Stars #Afar #Sun
“There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.”
-- George Gamow

#Math #Roots #Numbers
“Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.”
-- George Gamow

#Stars #Butterfly #Science
“So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.”
-- George Gamow

#Waiting #Listening #Sitting
“Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.”
-- George Gamow

#Problem #Made #Blunders

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