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Sir William McCrea
(13 Dec 1904 - 25 Apr 1999)
Irish theoretical astrophysicist.
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Science Quotes by Sir William McCrea (2 quotes)
I am always surprised when a young man tells me he wants to work at cosmology. I think of cosmology as something that happens to one, not something one can choose.
— Sir William McCrea
In Presidential Address (8 Feb 1963), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (Mar 1963), 4, 185.
Our experience shows that not everything that is observable and measurable is predictable, no matter how complete our past observations may have been.
— Sir William McCrea
In Presidential Address (8 Feb 1963), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (Mar 1963), 4, 197.
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- 13 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of McCrea's birth.
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.
(1987) -- 
