My mother was the only girl i...

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.

There was a young fellow from...

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.

Whereas all humans have appro...

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.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star
...

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.

It took less than an hour to ...

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!

Much later, when I discussed ...

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 ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

If the expansion of the space...

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.

When, in school, they were te...

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

My father was a teacher of th...

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

Much later, when I discussed t...

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 О› rears its ugly head again and again and again.

Whereas all humans have approx...

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.

There was a young fellow from ...

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.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 8 quotes

If the expansion of the space ...

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.

It took less than an hour to m...

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!

Much later, when I was discuss...

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.

So I am just sitting and waiti...

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