Quotes by George Gamow - Page 1

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
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So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
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Listening
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I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.
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Einstein
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All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.
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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
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Men
Stars
Years
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Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.
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Science
Butterfly
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
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Math
Squares
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Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.
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Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
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If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.
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Running
Science
Distance
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My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.
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Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again.
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