Arno Allan Penzias quotes

Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist best known for his co-discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This groundbreaking work provided crucial evidence supporting the Big Bang theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Change is rarely comfortable.

Arno Allan Penzias

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

Arno Allan Penzias

Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.

Arno Allan Penzias

The Bible talks of purposeful creation. What we have, however, is an amazing amount of order; and when we see order, in our experience it normally reflects purpose.

Arno Allan Penzias

The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.

Arno Allan Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Arno Allan Penzias