Brian Schmidt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Art #Jobs #Philosophy
If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Years #Damage #Causes
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Expansion #Rate #Universe
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Tests #Able #Problem
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Thinking #Australia #Free Spirit
I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.
-- Brian Schmidt

#Wine #Views #Done

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Brian Schmidt famous quotes

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