George Smoot quotes

George Smoot is an American astrophysicist best known for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. His research provided key evidence supporting the Big Bang theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his significant contributions to cosmology. Here are 11 of his quotes:

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing-a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand. (George Smoot)
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail. View quote
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics. View quote
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies. View quote
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My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader. View quote
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When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant. View quote
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When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me. View quote
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The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development. View quote
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I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. View quote
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For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas. View quote
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With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.' (George Smoot)

George Smoot

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Occupation: American Astrophysicist
Born: February 20, 1945
Quotes count: 11
Wikipedia: George Smoot

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