Joseph Silk

Joseph Silk (born 3 December 1942) is an English-born astronomer and the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.

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• The left hand of creation
  • Title of book

• The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
  • The Infinite Cosmos, Page 1

• Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.
  • The Infinite Cosmos, Page 3

The Dark Side of the Universe, 2007

The Dark Side of the Universe, article in "Astronomy and Geophysics", April 2007, pages 2.30-2.38

• Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
  • Page 2.30

• The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
  • Page 2.30

• Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
  • Page 2.30

• One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
  • Page 2.38

• Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.
  • Page 2.38