A Quote by George Gamow

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

George Gamow

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George Gamow
Russian - Physicist
March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

George Gamow

A lot of humanists treat religion as if it were simply a kind of rival cosmological hypothesis, and that this is all it is. My view is that to the extent that religions are cosmological hypotheses, this is not the only important thing about them, and we - atheists- will never get a proper understanding of what religion is if we focus too much on the cosmology.

Tim Crane

This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but its cosmological function is to give us a picture of the world we inhabit as human beings, and on that level it's failing a vast number of people.

Margaret Wertheim

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.

Adam Riess

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Stephen Hawking

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Paul Ricoeur

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

Jim Peebles

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Steven Weinberg

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

Lawrence Durrell

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

Lee Smolin

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Carl Sagan

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

Justin Winsor

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

Lewis Thomas

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