“Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest.”

— Gerald James Whitrow

"Theories of the Universe" (10 Apr 1958)
Context: Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest. From the dawn of civilization man has speculated about the nature of the starry heavens and the origin of the world, but only in the present century has physical cosmology split away from general philosophy to become an independent discipline.

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British mathematician 1912–2000

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