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Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

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The present universe is something like the old professor nearing retirement with his brilliant future behind him.

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They are to astronomy what atoms are to physics. Each galaxy is a stellar system somewhat like our Milky Way, and isolated from its neighbors by nearly empty space. In popular terms, each galaxy is a separate universe unto itself.

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It is such a strange conclusion... it cannot really be true.

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What are galaxies? No one knew before 1900. Very few people knew in 1920. All astronomers knew after 1924.

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Allan Sandage

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Born: June 18, 1926
Died: November 13, 2010 (aged 84)
Bio: Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe. He also discovered the first quasar.

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