James Jeans Quotes

• The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

  James Jeans

  Reality, Jeans, Mind

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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

  Nature, Science, Facts

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• The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

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  Want, Mathematical, Thinker

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

  James Jeans

  Life, Science, Atoms

  'The Mysterious Universe' (1930) ch. 1

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

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  God, Science, Creation

  The Mysterious Universe ch. 5 (1930)

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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 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]

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  Gratitude, Detours, Lovable

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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.

  James Jeans

  Stars, Science, Space

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• Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

  James Jeans

  Knowledge, Science, Jeans

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.126, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

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  Stars, Science, Past

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1939). “The Stars in Their Courses”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

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  Real, Forever, Way

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• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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  Life, Carpe Diem, Anticipation

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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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 a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.

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  Knowledge, Science, Fog

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• The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

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  Mean, Science, Intelligent

  "Stars in Their Courses". Book by James Jeans (p. 153), 1931.

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• ...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.

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  Knowledge, Science, Giving

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• En este modelo, el sol es una minúscula mota de polvo, una mota de menos de tres milésimas de pulgada de diámetro... Si pensamos en el Sol como algo menos que una mota de polvo en una inmensa ciudad, y en la Tierra como algo menos que la millonésima parte de esa mota de polvo, quizá tengamos una imagen tan vívida como la mente pueda realmente captar de la relación de nuestro hogar en el espacio con el resto del universo.

  James Jeans

  Home, Science, Thinking

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• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

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  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Hombres

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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 its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

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  Science, Humanity, Bottles

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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

  James Jeans

  Science, Time Travel, Reverse

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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 of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.

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  Philosophical, Science, Facts

  James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1981). “Physics and Philosophy”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

  James Jeans

  Science, Barren, Standards

  James Hopwood Jeans (1944). “The Mysterious Universe”, p.114, CUP Archive

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• We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

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  Cutting, Science, Groups

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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 inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

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  Nature, Science, Drawing

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.113, Pickle Partners Publishing

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