Jeremiah P. Ostriker quotes
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“The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.”
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“There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.”
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“There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.”
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“Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.”
-- Jeremiah P. OstrikerSource : "Fundamental laws - Astronomical reach". Interview with Catherine Zandonella, research.princeton.edu. January 31, 2014.
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“If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.”
-- Jeremiah P. OstrikerSource : "Fundamental laws - Astronomical reach". Interview with Catherine Zandonella, research.princeton.edu. January 31, 2014.
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.”
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“The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.”
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“Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.”
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“Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning”
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