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Martin Rees - The Cosmic Perspective
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. There are more than 100 billion galaxies scattered throughout the visible universe....Small galaxies have fewer than a billion stars. Large galaxies have more than a trillion. Abraham Lincoln -- "the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery... of new and useful things." Richard Feynman-"The same thrill, the same awe and mystery, comes again and again when we look at any question deeply enough. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may prove disappointing, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries - certainly a grand adventure! " Carl Sagan-"Everybody starts out as a scientist." Every child has the scientist #39;s sense of wonder and awe. Too often we discourage this curiosity and wonder. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein I do not know ...From:pangeaprogressreduxViews:4 1ratingsTime:04:43More inScience Technology

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