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The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

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Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

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Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

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One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

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Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

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The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

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It's impossible that the Big Bang is wrong.

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To many astronomers, the search for intergalactic matter resembles the quest for the holy grail.

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The development of human awareness of the Universe evolved from the geocentric cosmology of the ancient world via the heliocentric cosmology of the Renaissance and the egocentric cosmology of the nineteenth century, to the ultimate destination of the Big-Bang theory of the expanding Universe.

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Joseph Silk

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:
  1. A short history of the universe (1994)
  2. The Infinite Cosmos (2006)
  3. The Big Bang (1980)
  4. Horizons of Cosmology (2009)
  5. Cosmic enigmas (1994)

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