David H. Levy Quotes

Maxwell’s Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

- Carl Sagan

Astronomer

· USA

• Impact
• President

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is … the Dynamical Theory of Gases

- Simon Newcomb

Astronomer

· USA

• Beautiful
• Physics
• Science

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.

- Carl Sagan

Astronomer

· USA

• Love You

When you’re dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

- Phil Plait

Astronomer

· USA

• Ignorance
• Universe

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

- Carl Sagan

Astronomer

· USA

• Hands

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

- Arthur Eddington

Astronomer

· England

• Events
• Grace

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

- Carl Sagan

Astronomer

· USA

• Heart
• Science

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

Astronomer

· USA

• Exploration
• Science
• Senses

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Astronomer

· India

• Mathematical
• Physics

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

Astronomer

· USA

• History
• Horizon