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You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such

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"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars"

- Murray Gell-Mann

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This quote is written / told by Murray Gell-Mann somewhere between September 15, 1929 and today. He/she was a famous Physicist from USA. The author also have 24 other quotes.

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