George Smoot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasingâ€”a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
-- George Smoot

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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
-- George Smoot

#Christian #Doubt #Bangs
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
-- George Smoot

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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
-- George Smoot

#Parent #Mathematics #Interest
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
-- George Smoot

#Thinking #Details #Needs
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
-- George Smoot

#Football #School #Track
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
-- George Smoot

#Done #Reactions #Chernobyl
My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.
-- George Smoot

#Names #Fifth #Fifth Graders

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.
And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again...
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens.
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

George Smoot famous quotes

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