5 Quotes by Nigel Calder

Like human memory, the surface of our planet distorts the record, emphasising more recent events and letting the rest pass into vagueness - or at least into unimpressive joints in worn down mountain chains.

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

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

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

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.