Black Hole Quotes

• So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Play, Black

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

  Steven Wright

  Zero, Math, Black

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• Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Space, Black

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• When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Black, Holes

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• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

  Terence McKenna

  Sympathy, Black, Events

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• thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

  Stephen Hawking

  Black, Holes, Doomed

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• If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's Saturn. Here's a black hole. Here's twisted space-time. Talk to me. What do you need? What do you want?" And I'll just feed you, because I think only then does science become mainstream - when science becomes a legitimate topic for artists.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, People, Black

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• The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Black, Goes On, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence Says Dying Her Hair Silenced 'Hunger Games' Hate". Interview with Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

  Raymond Moody

  Afterlife, Black, Way

  "Raymond Moody, Man Behind ‘Near-Death Experience’ Ponders The Afterlife" by Piet Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

  William Golding

  Religious, Believe, Law

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• I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

  Wesley Snipes

  Men, Black, Fiction

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Zero, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

  Michio Kaku

  Black, Together, Looks

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Fall, Black

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Black, Information

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Edward Witten

  Black, Fields, Ordinary

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• Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Ideas, Space

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• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Loss, Thinking, Years

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

  Maximilian Schell

  Fun, Halloween, Black

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• There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Black, Literature, Matter

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• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

  Michael Pollan

  Party, Agreement, Two

  "Michael Pollan on Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.tomdispatch.com.

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• Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.

  Robert Nozick

  Giving, Black, Holes

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