James Jeans
James Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLDwas an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth11 September 1877
appear architect begins creation english-physicist evidence great intrinsic pure
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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The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.
begins english-physicist great
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
It angers you to some extent. You just say, 'Why?'
stars science space
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
god creation architect
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
knowledge giving quests
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
knowledge jeans rivers
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
knowledge fog together
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.
nature men blue
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.
cutting use may
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
humanity bottles lasts
Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.
gratitude detours lovable
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]
science standards barren
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.