Thomas Gold

“The flow of oil is a geological phenomenon on a grand scale. It is a river of carbon that is flowing up from the deep earth.”

“The carbon we find in the top layers of the crust is not biogenic at all, but is primordial carbon that is erupting from great depth.”

“The discovery of pulsars, in the form of the flashing radio stars, has given us a wonderful new tool for the study of the universe.”

“Whenever you have a new observation, you can either try to explain it with existing theories, or you can say that the existing theories are wrong.”

“The steady-state theory has a simplicity and beauty that for some of us makes it very attractive.”

“Heresy in science is not only a virtue, it is a necessity.”

“Most of the things that we think of as being established in science are not nearly as well established as we think.”