Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Chaisson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Eric Chaisson.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Eric Chaisson

Eric J. Chaisson is an American astrophysicist known for his research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of cosmic evolution. He is a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, teaches natural science at Harvard University and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.
Given enough time, even evolution evolves. — © Eric Chaisson
Given enough time, even evolution evolves.
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.
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