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One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increased. Why? Because they're all busy just filling in the details of what they think is the standard story.

— Nigel Calder

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

Violent Universe (1969)

But science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.

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.

Violent Universe (1969)

No other conclusion of modern research testifies more clearly to mankind’s intimate connections with the universe at large and with the cosmic forces at work among the stars.

The Key to the Universe (1977)

In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust.
Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen atoms, was fashioned in stars that formed, grew old and exploded most violently before the Sun and the Earth came into being.

The Key to the Universe (1977)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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