A Quote by Jim Peebles

I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.

Jim Peebles

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Jim Peebles
Canadian - Scientist
Born: April 25, 1935

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Parker J. Palmer

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William Happer

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Alan Guth

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Winston Churchill

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John Edgar Wideman

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Richard Lewontin

I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.

James Howard Kunstler

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Zooey Deschanel

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

William Shakespeare

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Dave Goldberg

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Ronald Fisher

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.