Giant Magellan Telescope Quotes & Sayings

The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. When we look up into the daylight sky, we are not seeing the sun as it currently is but as it was about eight minutes ago, since it takes that long for the light radiating from this familiar star to travel 93 million miles to Earth. Similarly, when the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) receives light waves from the depths of the universe, those waves will have originated from points as far as 76 sextillion (76,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles away. It will have taken those waves some 13 billion years to arrive on earth, meaning they left their source about a million years after the big bang, and roughly nine to ten years before Earth even formed. — Richard Kurin

And I quote, Michael Cole is still a massive tool! — Edge

We need each other, not because our bodies fit so well together. But because our hearts beat the same tune, for the same reason. — Pam Godwin

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. — Ian McEwan

The very worst part of you is me. — Linkin Park

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. — Henry Rollins

Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. — Hugh Howey

Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same. — Dwan J. Young

I think a lot about the might-have-beens, the what-ifs. About the little places in history where one tiny, minute change can lead to a new and unimaginable future. It's like chess, so many permutations, probabilities, choices, cross-roads ... I think a lot about the future, our future. And I see uncertainty. — Lavie Tidhar

Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover. — Dick Couch

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither. — James Hansen