George Gamow Quotes

• 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!

  George Gamow

  Stars, Men, Years

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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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.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Science, Afar

  George Gamow (1965). “Matter, Earth, and Sky”

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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.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Butterfly, Science

  George Gamow (1970). “A Star Called the Sun”

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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.

  George Gamow

  Science, Math, Squares

  "One, Two, Three...Infinity". Book by George Gamow, 1947.

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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.

  George Gamow

  Running, Distance, Science

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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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.

  George Gamow

  Greek, Ugly, Letters

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• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  George Gamow

  Waiting, Listening, Sitting

  "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado, April 25, 1968.

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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.

  George Gamow

  Problem, Made, Blunders

  George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult

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