Edward Robert Harrison Quotes

Edward R. "Ted" Harrison

was a British astronomer and cosmologist, noted for his work about the increase of fluctuations in the expanding universe, for his explanation of Olbers' Paradox, and for his books on cosmology for lay readers. He spent much of his career at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and University of Arizona, USA. Wikipedia

✵ 8. January 1919 – 29. January 2007

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Edward Robert Harrison Quotes

“Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?”

Edward Robert Harrison

Darkness at Night: a Riddle of the Universe (1987), p. 1

Light , Universe

“Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”

Edward Robert Harrison

Smithsonian Magazine, December, 1995.

People , Light , Time

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