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
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.
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.
science time-travel reverse
One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
stars science past
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.
philosophical science would-be
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.
science atoms carbon
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
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.
english-physicist
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?'
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.