“So far, the clumsily long name ‘quasi-stellar radio sources’ is used to describe these objects…. For convenience, the abbreviated term ‘quasar’ will be used throughout this paper.”
Hong-Yee Chiu, Physics Today May 1964
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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