Quotes from James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

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.

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.

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

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

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

...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.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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

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.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.