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Occup.	Scientist
Born	March 31, 1909
Died	November 23, 1995
Aged	86 years
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Summary

Barney Oliver was a famous Scientist, who lived between March 31, 1909 and November 23, 1995. He became 86 years old.

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He is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious. Our collection contains 10 quotes written by Barney, under the main topics: Science - War - Artificial Intelligence - Adventure.

10 Famous quotes by Barney Oliver

"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars"

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"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light"

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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient"

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"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world"

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"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance"

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory"

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"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter"

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"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be"

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"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars"

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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots"

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