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What constitutes proof in one generation is not the same thing as proof in another.
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There is not, and never has been, a human being who was capable of thinking straight, except by checking his thoughts against objective experience.
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If there is one thing we can be sure enough of in physics it is that all time exists with equal reality.
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It is true that we must not accept a theory on the basis of emotional preference but it is not an emotional preference to attempt to establish a theory that would place us in a position to obtain a complete understanding of the Universe. The stakes are high, and win or lose, are worth playing for.
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No literary genius could have harvested a story one-hundredth part as fantastic as the sober facts that have been unearthed by astronomical science.
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Whales can make progress through water either by wagging their tails up and down or from side to side. Light can travel through space in two ways, one like a tail moving up and down and the other like the tail moving from side to side.
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An ultimate theory, like the Holy Grail, is something the physicist must always seek but will never find.
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If one is obliged to be efficient about everything the best that can be achieved is a moderate measure of competence.
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I realized that only in music could I find the answer I was seeking to the questions of the previous evening. Argument I could follow, it weighed with me, yet I could decide nothing from it.
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Fred Hoyle
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Born:
June 24, 1915
Died:
August 20, 2001
(aged 86)
Bio:
Sir Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and science fiction author.
Known for:
The Black Cloud (1957)
Evolution from Space (1981)
October the First Is Too Late (1966)
Fifth Planet (1963)
Ossian's Ride (1959)
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