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Quotes from Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science — John D. Barrow

1952–2020 England

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The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

Copernicus' picture did more than picture the solar system correctly: it painted a new world picture.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

Mathematics became an experimental subject. Individuals could follow previously intractable problems by simply watching what happened when they were programmed into a personal computer.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

The advent of small, inexpensive computers with superb graphics has changed the way many sciences are practiced, and the way that all sciences present the results of experiments and calculations.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

Scientific pictures are often not just about science. They may... have an undeniable aesthetic quality. They may even have been primarily works of art that possess a scientific message.

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John D. Barrow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.