Adventure Quote by James Jeans

“...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

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One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

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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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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…

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We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence…

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“If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are…

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The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions…

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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…

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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

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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…

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...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

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