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

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evide…

- James Jeans

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

- James Jeans

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-cen…

- James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

- James Jeans

...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.

- James Jeans

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 thi…

- James Jeans

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.

- James Jeans

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 p…

- James Jeans