The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
...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. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
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… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
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… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
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… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
![“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]” quote by James Jeans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6b/james-jeans-23389_aspect_the-really-happy-person-is-the-one-who-c_667816.jpg)
