#expanding

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ago #almost #astounding #bang #been

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise

Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market. ↗

— David Milne

#market #our #segments #well

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#client #competitors #consolidate #every #exit

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clinton #committed #expanding #faith-based #george

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canadian #concrete #confidence #evidence #expanding

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding