Dennis Sciama Quotes

Dennis William Siahou Sciama, was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology.

✵ 18. November 1926 – 18. December 1999

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Dennis Sciama Quotes

“The reader has by now probably become accustomed to the reversals of fortune so common in astronomy.”

Dennis Sciama

Source: Modern Cosmology (1971), p. 73

“It has now become clear that the exploration of the Universe, as conducted by physicists, astronomers and cosmologists, is one of the greatest intellectual adventures of the mid-twentieth century.”

Dennis Sciama

Preface, p. vii
Modern Cosmology (1971)

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