Quotes by James Jeans

• The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.
• The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
• From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
• Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.