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Quotes from John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze — John Dobson

1915–2014 United States

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If the momentum approaches zero, our uncertainty in the momentum approaches zero.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

The spacetime separation between here-now and there-then is objective.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

The Big Bang people wanted to get everything out of nothing. They want us to believe that nothing made everything out of nothing.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

If the amateurs don't get their telescopes out for the public, nobody will! The professionals make telescopes for the professionals. We sidewalk astronomers make telescopes for the rest of you.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

You can't persuade a kid that nothing made everything out of nothing. ...It's impossible to get everything out of nothing.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

Now back to the border... where the radiation as seen by us approaches zero.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

So as I see it, the stuff recycles from the border.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

95%... of this stuff is going to be blown away.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

I know. You'll say, "I'm going to go along with the damned clock. That's entirely arbitrary, and the rest of the universe is not going along with your damned clock anyway.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

Now if the universe weren't made out of frustration, it couldn't go on like this. Cheer up. There's no way out of it.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

I'm not responsible for any of those equations. ...I'm just your tour guide.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

This is Einstein's 1905 geometry.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

So now it's impossibility cubed.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

We have only an explanation of how things fall, not why they fall; and how they coast, not why they coast; and that they are made of electricity and not why they're made of electricity. Those old physicists had the why answer on this.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

I like to make fun of the Big Bang. I'm allergic to the Big Bang.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

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