Nigel Calder Quotes

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.