The Greatest Discovery (COBE, 1992)

• "unbelievably important... They have found the Holy Grail of cosmology"

Michael Turner (University of Chicago)

• "It is the discovery of the century, if not all time"

Stephen Hawking (Cambridge University, UK)

• "What we have found is evidence for the birth of the universe. It’s like looking at God."

George Smoot (UC Berkeley - COBE project leader)

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Last updated 09/24/99