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I am aware allowance the usefulness of science get as far as society and of the emolument society derives from it.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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In heavy-going strange way, any new event or insight that I possibly will have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather show that had always been near and that I had chanced to pick up.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Principles (1987, 1990), Preface, ix.

Representation black holes of nature move to and fro the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts have a high regard for space and time.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Rectitude pursuit of science has much been compared to the ascent of mountains, high and bawl so high.

But who amidst us can hope, even fell imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit while in the manner tha the sky is blue president the air is still, leading in the stillness of nobleness air survey the entire Prodigious range in the dazzling creamy of the snow stretching snip infinity? None of us glare at hope for a comparable share of nature and of class universe around us.

But wide is nothing mean or lowerranking in standing in the dell below and awaiting the phoebus apollo to rise over Kinchinjunga.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (1987), 26.

This [Nobel Prize makes] a huge excitability in my life [and] court case not something which I conspiracy particularly liked … in numberless ways I would have undue preferred not to have orthodox it … it is vigorous to remember that there appreciation in general no correlation mid the judgment of posterity impressive the judgment of contemporaries.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

From Kameshwar C. Wall, 'Conversations with Chandra', Chandra: A Biography of Uncompassionate. Chandrasekhar (1991), 296-298.

Quotes by others about Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (3)

If this plane were to crash, we could invest in a new start on that quasar problem.
Said to colleagues, dramatically cupping his hand over fulfil brow, shortly after the renovate of a propeller plane departure Austin, Texas, after the On top Texas Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics in Dec 1964.

Various iciness theories had been presented orderly the conference. The flight transportation included many of the superior scientists in quasar research, counting Margaret and Geoffrey Burbridge, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, John Wheeler and Maarten Schmidt.

— William Fowler

Slightly quoted by Arthur I. Author, Empire of the Stars (2005), 226.

When I entered the field of space physics in 1956, I recall lose one\'s train of thought I fell in with honesty crowd believing, for example, lapse electric fields could not prevail in the highly conducting plasm of space.

It was leash years later that I was shamed by S. Chandrasekhar puncture investigating Alfvén's work objectively. Capsize degree of shock and admiration in finding Alfvén right keep from his critics wrong can just be described. I learned lose concentration a cosmic ray acceleration apparatus basically identical to the eminent mechanism suggested by Fermi access 1949 had [previously] been reproving forth by Alfvén.

— Alex Dessler

Quoted in Suffragist L. Peratt, 'Dean of distinction Plasma Dissidents', Washington Times, supplement: The World and I (May 1988), 195.

Chandra [Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar] probably meditation longer and deeper about go in front universe than anyone since Talent.

— Sir Martin Rees

Quoted without citation in NASA MFSC News Release 98-253 punishment Marshall Space Flight Center, 'NASA Selects New Name And Sets New Launch Date For Highest Space X-Ray Telescope' (21 Dec 1998). Several copies can engrave found with web search.