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
James Jeans quotes about
begins english-physicist great
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
facts essentials observation
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.
science time-travel reverse
One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
science standards barren
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
gratitude detours lovable
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]
nature men blue
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.
knowledge fog together
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.
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.