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John Norris Bahcall foi um astrofísico estadunidense.

É mais conhecido por sua contribuição ao problema do neutrino solar, desenvolvimento do telescópio espacial Hubble liderança e empenho no Instituto de Estudos Avançados de Princeton. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Dezembro 1934 – 17. Agosto 2005
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“We often frame our understanding of what the space telescope will do in terms of what we expect to find, and actually it would be terribly anticlimactic if in fact we find what we expect to find. … The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.”

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John N. Bahcall, quoted in his obituary at CalTech (7 September 2005) http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/articles/20050907.shtml; On the Hubble Space Telescope's capabilities for the advancement of science

“Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.”

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[1995, March 6, UNRAVELING UNIVERSE. Is the cosmos younger than the stars it contains? Was Einstein's biggest blunder not a mistake? Here's why cosmology is in chaos, Time, 145, 84]
This quote was Bahcall's response to the ongoing controversy about which new observation will eventually "tie up the loose ends in cosmology?"