James Jeans Short Quotes

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The immensity of space is paralleled by that of time.

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Time figures as the mortar which binds the bricks of matter together.

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The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a machine.

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Space, regarded as a receptacle for radiant energy, is a bottomless pit.

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Matter being nothing but a sort of congealed radiation travelling at less than its normal speed.

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Choose a point in space at random and the odds against it being occupied by a star are enormous.

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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.

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So little do we understand time that perhaps we ought to compare the whole of time to the act of creation.

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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

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It can hardly be disputed that nature and our conscious mathematical minds work according to the same laws.

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It is frequently more difficult to frame a sensible question than to obtain an answer to a nonsensical one.

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Nebulae are the birthplaces of the stars, so that each nebula consists of stars born and stars not yet born.

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The cosmologist, accepting the universe for what it is, must try to discover why it is thus and not otherwise.

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Nothing is gained by saying that the loom of nature works like our muscles if we cannot explain how our muscles work.

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It would be a dull mind that could see the rich variety of natural phenomena without wondering how they are inter-related.

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The universe can not go on forever as it now is, and neither can it have existed in its present condition from all eternity.

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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

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Empty Waterloo Station of everything except six specks of dust and it is still far more crowded with dust than space is with stars.

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We have found out that nature does not function in a way that can be made comprehensible to the human mind through models or pictures.

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The electrons may now be pictured as octopus-like structures with tentacles or "tubes of force" sticking out from it in every direction.

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The astronomer is satisfied if he can see the universe as it is, the cosmologist must ever strive to see it as it has been and as it will be.

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The lantern of science, throwing its light down the long corridors of time, enables us to trace out the gradual evolution of terrestrial life.

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Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.

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The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

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The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

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All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

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Any small bit of the sky does not look very different from what it would if bright and faint stars had been sprinkled out of a celestial pepper pot.

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To many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives the greater interest to thought — to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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