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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.

Kitty Ferguson

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.

Kitty Ferguson

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.

Kitty Ferguson

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

Kitty Ferguson

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.

Kitty Ferguson

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.

Kitty Ferguson

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:

Prisons of Light - Black Holes (1996)
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work (2011)

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