James Jeans
James Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLDwas an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth11 September 1877
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begins english-physicist great
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
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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.
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To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
drawing world study
...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.
humanity bottles lasts
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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The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.