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In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Answers Bang Big Big Bang Current Day Doubt Elude Good Had His Horizon Look May Newton No Doubt Our Questions Roughly Settle Still Us Whose Will Years

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Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

~David Crosby

Topics: About Bang Because Big Big Bang Describe Describing Got Great Great Way How How Many People Important Important Thing Lot Many Music People Played Thing Think Truly Way Were Wonderful Woodstock I Think

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The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

~David Gross

Topics: Back Bang Big Big Bang Billions Coming Course Dense Early Enough Go History Hot Hotter Idea Looking Much Period See Smaller The History Of Theory Universe Us Very Where Will Years Years Ago

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To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

~David Gross

Topics: Back Bang Began Beginning Better Big Big Bang Break Current Down Laws Need Our Physics Procedures Push Rules Set So-Called State Than Them Try Understand Universe Which Work

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All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

~David Hepworth

Topics: About Bang Came Cameron Careers Coffin Continent David Did End Ended Europe Failure Few Having He His Name Political Power Promising Quickly Up

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I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Awful Awful Lot Bad Bad Guys Bang Bin Captured Case Day Followed Get Got Guys Issues Just Just One Kind Leads Long Long Period Lot Mean One Day Over People Period Them Thing Thousands Time Up Where Worked You

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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

~Dick Van Dyke

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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

~Douglas Horton

Topics: Against Attempting Bang Bangs Death Door Fly Freedom Heaven Ignoring Open Stands While Window

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I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

~Drake Bell

Topics: About Around Bang Downstairs Going Just Me Morning Piano Up Wake Wake Up Walk World Write

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They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

~Dwight Schultz

Topics: Another Bang Big Big Bang Direction Discovered Galaxies Going Moving Now Other Ours Outward Says Theory Where

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