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Astrophysicists have the formidable privilege of having the largest view of the Universe; particle detectors and large telescopes are today used to study distant stars, and throughout space and time, from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, the Universe never ceases to surprise us by revealing its structures little by little.

Jean-Pierre Luminet

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jean-Pierre Luminet

Jean-Pierre Luminet

Born: June 3, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, writer and poet, specialized in black holes and cosmology. He works as research director for the CNRS, and is a member of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories of the observatory of Paris-Meudon.

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