Top 5 Nigel Calder Quotes

#1. The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

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#2. Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

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#3. The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

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#4. The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

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#5. But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

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