Thomas Gold Quotes
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Citations
Martin, Douglas. "Thomas Gold, Astrophysicist And Defier of Cosmic Convention, Dies at 84." The New York Times, 24 June 2004.
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Thomas Gold (also known as Tommy Gold), was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in 1948 proposed the now mostly abandoned "steady state" hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.