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Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity...The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable.
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We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.
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Georges Lemaître
Born:
July 17, 1894
Died:
June 20, 1966
(aged 71)
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Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He proposed the theory of the expansion of the universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.
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