Joseph Silk Quotes

Joseph Ivor Silk FRS is a British astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011.

He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was awarded the 2011 Balzan Prize for his works on the early Universe. Silk has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. December 1942
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Famous Joseph Silk Quotes

“Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.”

Page 2.30
The Dark Side of the Universe, 2007

“Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.”

Page 2.38
The Dark Side of the Universe, 2007

“The left hand of creation”

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