Adam Riess quotes

“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”
-- Adam Riess

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“I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.”
-- Adam Riess

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

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“We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.”
-- Adam Riess

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

#Cake Quotes

“It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.”
-- Adam Riess

Source : "Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.

#Believe Quotes #Dark Quotes #Space Quotes

“Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.”
-- Adam Riess

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“We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.”
-- Adam Riess

#Fall Quotes #Apples Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.”
-- Adam Riess

#Teacher Quotes #Moving Quotes #School Quotes

“I love love stories, no matter how dark.”

“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”

“What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.”

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“When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.”

“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

“...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”