Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Kirshner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Robert Kirshner.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Robert Kirshner

Robert P. Kirshner is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clownes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University. Kirshner has worked in several areas of astronomy including the physics of supernovae, supernova remnants, the large-scale structure of the cosmos, and the use of supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe.

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.
Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are. — © Robert Kirshner
Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
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