Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker is an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University and is the Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus at Princeton where he also continues as a Senior Research Scholar. Ostriker has also served as a university administrator as Provost of Princeton University.

Born: April 13, 1937

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There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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