It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred … - George Gamow

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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

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George Gamow [pronounced "GAM-off"] (March 4 1904 – August 19 1968) was an American physicist and cosmologist of Russian descent. He developed the Big Bang theory of cosmology, using it to predict the existence of Cosmic background radiation, and his insight that DNA nucleotides probably formed "a triplet code of four symbols" was influential on very important research and discoveries in genetics.

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Native Name: Гео́ргий Анто́нович Га́мов

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Repeating the same argument for each thin rectangle, we come to the conclusion that the total distance covered during the time interval (o,t) is equal to the area of the staircase or, in the limit, to the area of the triangle ABC.

No importa cuánto te agrade una teoría: si los resultados experimentales la refutan, habrá que arrojarla a la basura.

I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! - George Gamow

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