Quotes About Cosmology

So dark matter is our frenemy. We have no clue what it is. It's kind of annoying. But we desperately need it in our calculations to arrive at an accurate description of the universe. Scientists are generally uncomfortable whenever we must base our calculations on concepts we don't understand, but we'll do it if we have to. And dark matter is not our first rodeo.

Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?

If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don't know. Maybe there's nothing the matter with the matter, and it's the gravity we don't understand.

But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify—a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.

opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.

thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang

The largest black hole that could have evaporated since the big bang would have to have been smaller than an atomic nucleus.

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.

From a plurality of prime movers, the monotheists have bargained it down to a single one. They are getting ever nearer to the true, round figure.

Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?" Jorrus said, "Vita ex pulvis." "We are made from the dust of dead stars.

the kind of influence printing has had on modern sensibility… : the shattering of the intellectual experience into uniform and repeatable units, the establishment of a sense of homogeneity and continuity that generated, at a distance of centuries, the assembly line, and presided over the ideology of the mechanical age, as well as the cosmology of infinitesimal calculation.

I think the Big Bang theory must have been invented by a man. A woman would have wanted it to take longer and insisted on a commitment.

An infinite body, according to us, is neither potentially nor actually mobile, neither light nor heavy potentially or actually.

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.

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

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

That is, the infrared pictures taken by COBE point to the existence of matter from the very early universe that would ultimately form into galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

The theory itself, which has been verified to five decimal places, demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative. That is, they are interdependent—you can't have one without the others.