Arthur N. Cox - Stellar Astrophysicist, Los Alamos
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.50
DescriptionThis color photograph is of astrophysicist Arthur N. Cox with a written inscription and signature by Cox underneath. Cox is seated at a desk looking at the camera.The inscription reads:
Reality compromises the way things are. That includes an enormous number of individually perceived things. It ranges from how people are and act to very distant inanimate concepts of how the universe is structured. In my profession I study the reality of stars -- how they exist and operate to evolve and die. Often I wonder why things are as they are and the way I find them. Could it be that we misinterpret what we sense, and the universe in reality is much different? Are we really aware of reality? To many others, reality is very different. Politicians and teachers deal with the reality of people. Do they ever wonder if they have it all wrong? Certainly their value of importance and concept of how things work is much different from mine. I think I know what the word reality means, but I do know really know the meaning of reality.
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