Quote of the day
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Joseph Silk
Born: December 3, 1942 (age 81)
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)