Richard Panek
Richard Panek (born 1959) is an American popular science writer, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of space, the universe, and gravity.
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Quotes
[edit]Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens (1998)
[edit]All quotes from the hardcover first edition, published by Viking, ISBN 0-670-87628-3
- It is indeed like that, how often we are held by prejudice, so that we either do not admit what is before our eyes or bow as much as possible to a preconceived opinion because of the perverse wont of human nature. Nor do I except myself from that weakness.
- Chapter 3, “By the Numbers” (p. 68)
- Whatever gravity was, it must work, because he (Galileo) had the math to prove it.
- Chapter 4, “Profundity” (p. 102)
- Once, when his wife suggested that he attend church on Sunday for the sake of the children, Hale answered, “My creed is truth, wherever it may lead, and I believe that no creed is finer than this (the 100-inch telescope).”
- Chapter 5, “More Light” (p. 146)
- The universe is a work in progress.
- Chapter 6, “More Dark” (p. 162)
