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In the beginning.... A scientist cannot continue this sentence with absolute certainty. It would be like asking a child to give an account of his birth or a description of his conception.

Gerald Hawkins

We should expect to find stars and galaxies in all stages of evolution as they form from existing material and then decay. For stars this is certainly the case.... There may be a similar evolutionary process for galaxies, but at the moment we do not have enough experimental evidence to give us the clues to the evolutionary pattern.

Gerald Hawkins

Gerald Hawkins

Born: April 20, 1928

Died: May 26, 2003 (aged 75)

Bio: Gerald Stanley Hawkins was a British-born American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of archaeoastronomy.

Known for:

Stonehenge Decoded (1963)
Beyond Stonehenge (1973)
Mindsteps to the cosmos (1983)
Stonehenge - Earth and Sky
Soleil sur Stonehenge

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