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"I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino."
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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
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"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."
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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."
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"I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined."
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"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."
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"Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe, that was almost an article of faith among scientists."
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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
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"The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed."
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"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."
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"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."
Achievement
"We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum."
Music
"The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums."
First
"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever."
Queen
"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band."
Time
"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."
Time
"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do."
Thought
"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
Children
"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about."
Nothing
"I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky."
Life
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