Cosmic Microwave Background

Famous quotes containing the words cosmic, microwave and/or background:

    “The furthest bodies
    To which man sends his
    Speculation,
    Beyond which God is;
    The cosmic motes
    Of yawning lenses.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The New Age? It’s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.”
    —James Randi (b. 1928)

    “Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)