Final Day Without Yesterday quote

The microwave background was discovered in 1941. Andrew McKellar, at the Dominion Observatory on Victoria Island, B.C., discovered an excitation temperature of 3K…. Factually speaking, this was just as clear cut a discovery of the background as that of 1965, but the world was not in an intellectual position to appreciate it, demonstrating the great importance of sociological factors in assessing the merits of scientific work.

Great credit accrues to those who make a scientific discovery when the world is already teetering on the edge of it, whereas the discoverer who is markedly too early scarcely earns a footnote in scientific history.

Fred Hoyle, “Final Remarks”

The Day Without Yesterday, Lemaître, Einstein and the birth of modern cosmology

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These quotes are dedicated to Georges Lemaître and all other Scientists at heart, in search of the Truth.