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Bart J. Bok
(28 Apr 1906 - 7 Aug 1983)
Dutch-American astronomer.
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Science Quotes by Bart J. Bok (2 quotes)
Dr. Walter Baade of Mount Wilson Observatory facetiously accused the present generation of Milky Way astronomers of not having looked sufficiently far beyond our “local swimming hole”.
— Bart J. Bok
At then-recent symposium of the American Astronomical Society, as stated in Leaflet The Cemter of the Galaxy (1948), No. 230, 254.
For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.
— Bart J. Bok
Essay, 'The Miky Way Galaxy' from Paul W. Hodge (editor), The Universe of Galaxies (1981) Collected in Timothy Ferris (editor), The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics (1991), 300.
See also:
- 28 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bok's birth.
- The Milky Way, by Bart J. Bok. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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