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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. — James Jeans Copy Share
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
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
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own… — James Jeans Copy Share
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe… — James Jeans Copy Share
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans Copy Share
