The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

- Nigel Calder

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

- Nigel Calder

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientis…

- Nigel Calder

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

- Nigel Calder

It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 cha…

- Nigel Calder

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe…

- Nigel Calder

Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush t…

- Nigel Calder