James Jeans Quotes

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

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

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

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It does not at present look as though Nature had designed the universe primarily for life; the normal star and the normal nebula have nothing to do with life except making it impossible. Life is the end of a chain of by-products; it seems to be the accident, and torrential deluges of life-destroying radiation the essential.

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