Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
Joseph Silk

Born: December 3, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Joseph Ivor Silk was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011. He was educated at Tottenham County School and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Known for:
- A short history of the universe (1994)
- The Infinite Cosmos (2006)
- The Big Bang (1980)
- Horizons of Cosmology (2009)
- Cosmic enigmas (1994)