Robert Kirshner Quotes

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Like the fifteenth-century navigators, astronomers today are embarked on voyages of exploration, charting unknown regions. The aim of this adventure is to bring back not gold or spices or silks but something more valuable: a map of the universe that will tell of its origin, its texture, and its fate.

Robert Kirshner

Although the Universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of the Ph.D. are.

Robert Kirshner

We are not made of the type of particles that make up most of the matter in the universe, and we have no idea yet how to sense directly the dark energy that determines the fate of the universe.

Robert Kirshner

If Copernicus taught us the lesson that we are not at the center of things, our present picture of the universe rubs it in.

Robert Kirshner