George Gamow

1904–1968 · Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist

Topics: physics, mathematics

• It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

  — George Gamow

• If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

  — George Gamow

• There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  — George Gamow