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Robert Jastrow Quotes

1925–2008 United States

Robert Jastrow (September 7, 1925 – February 8, 2008) was an American astronomer, planetary physicist and cosmologist. He was a NASA scientist, populist author and futurist.

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The eye appears to have been designed; no designer of telescopes could have done better.

Few astronomers could have anticipated that this event—the sudden birth of the Universe—would become a proven scientific fact, but observations of the heavens through telescopes have forced them to that conclusion.

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

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