Jim Peebles

I had good time in high school, but I don't think I learned a lot.

— Jim Peebles

It is so easy for us theorists who build wonderful castles, beautiful ideas. Sometimes, it is remarkable, sometimes these beautiful ideas prove…

— Jim Peebles

You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to…

— Jim Peebles

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

— Jim Peebles

My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the…

— Jim Peebles

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

— Jim Peebles

I think that my research is valuable to my teaching. I think that the two complement each other and I'm able to…

— Jim Peebles

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions…

— Jim Peebles

It's stimulating to teach a new course. To teach a course three times in a row is, I think, about the maximum…

— Jim Peebles

I see these people in Princeton, my home town, as they go marching for control of climate. It is a wonderful thing.…

— Jim Peebles

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

— Jim Peebles

One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have…

— Jim Peebles

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very…

— Jim Peebles

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

— Jim Peebles

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in…

— Jim Peebles

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

— Jim Peebles

Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in…

— Jim Peebles

I've always, since I was a kid, been interested in how things work.

— Jim Peebles

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright…

— Jim Peebles

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.

— Jim Peebles

I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.

— Jim Peebles

I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell…

— Jim Peebles

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught,…

— Jim Peebles

One of my earliest memories was throwing a tantrum because I wasn't allowed to put together the coffee percolator.

— Jim Peebles

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics…

— Jim Peebles