Andrea M. Ghez quotes
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“Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right.”
-- Andrea M. GhezSource : "Astrophysicists: Black Holes Central to Galaxy Formation". Interview with Ker Than, www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2007.
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“As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.”
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“Gravity wins over all other known forces.”
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“Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.”
-- Andrea M. GhezSource : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVAInterview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
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“The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.”
-- Andrea M. GhezSource : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
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Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.
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“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.”
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“Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.”
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“I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.”
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