Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — 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… — 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… — 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… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in… — 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… — 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… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — 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… — 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)
