“But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come...” — Murray Gell-Mann Quote

“But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.”

“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.”

“What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.”

“I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.”

“Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.”

“I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.”