Halton Arp famous quotes

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.
-- Halton Arp

#Robust #Claims #Theory

No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.
-- Halton Arp

#Matter

I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.
-- Halton Arp

#Intelligent #Reality #Wind

After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.
-- Halton Arp

#Humility #Years #Faces

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
-- Halton Arp

#Stars #Science #Clouds

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.