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We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.

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Letting numbers take us where we can't go in person — whether that's to the top of a windmill or to the origin and borders of the universe — has been and still is one of humankind's favorite intellectual adventures.

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It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

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Compared with the adventure of discovering them, the statistics themselves often seem terribly dry.

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Events in the heavens happen in their own good time and not before, and they are often not repeatable. Astronomers have learned to take what's an offer and make the best of it.

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Measuring is one of the more practical uses of mathematics, but the ability and desire to measure aren't always wrapped up with the need to know useful answers.

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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

Kitty Ferguson

Kitty Ferguson

Born: December 16, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Kitty Gail Ferguson is an American science writer, lecturer, and former professional musician.
Known for:
  1. Prisons of Light - Black Holes (1996)
  2. Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work (2011)

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