Quote of the day
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Joseph Silk
Born: December 3, 1942 (age 80)
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)