We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.
“We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.”
— Rainer Weiss · Hope
The World Motivation
We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.
“We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.”
— Rainer Weiss · Hope
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“We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.”
“You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.”
“The rule has been that when one opens a new channel to the universe, there is usually a surprise in it. Why should the gravitational channel be deprived of this?”
“One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.”
“We'll have all sorts of crazy signals. And you'd be a damned fool if you didn't look for things you weren't expecting, because that's probably what you're going to see first.”
“We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make improvements by another factor of 10... a strain sensitivity that is 10 times smaller. This means looking 10 times further out into the universe.”
“Your brain is beautifully rewritable.”
“Hope! Hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evil, no eternal hell!”
“If the birds keep on making nests, if they know there’s gonna be a tomorrow, then I wanna stick around and see what they’re singing about. They’re who I’m gonna listen to. . .”
“Despite all my other anxieties, as I set about the recipe--- grinding sugar, boiling it to a syrup, then clarifying it with egg white to draw off the impurities--- I tasted a sweet edge of hope. My customers often proved resistant to change, and yet this frozen delicacy promised innovation married to the familiar. After all, what could be more English than peaches and cream? I knew instinctively that it would prove more popular than Persian sherbet, and more suited to this weather than apricot tarts.”
“All you can do is start where you are.”