D. Van Nostrand Co. quotes

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There are no landmarks in space; one portion of space is like every other portion, so that we cannot tell where we are.

James Maxwell (1878)



The surface of the Earth as a whole has no boundary; why should it not be the same for the whole of space?

Georges Lemaître (1950)



… the now without a yesterday …

Georges Lemaître (1950)