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Jiten Dhandha

@currysmologist.bsky.social

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Astro PhD at University of Cambridge 🌌 | 21cm cosmologist and high-redshift galaxy enthusiast | avid chai drinker ☕️ | occasional Wikipedia editor 🧩 | he/him

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Jiten Dhandha

@currysmologist.bsky.social

absolutely love this quote in the introduction to Cosmos (Carl Sagan). How beautifully put… 🔭

INTRODUCTION

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

- Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, first century

December 23, 2024 at 9:18 PM

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees

@mcnees.bsky.social

"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders."

Charles Darwin, who sometimes dealt with a pretty bad case of the Mondays, was born OTD in 1809. 🧪 🦤

This quote is found in a letter to Charles Lyell:
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...