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

- James Jeans

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

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

- James Jeans

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

- James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

- James Jeans

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

- James Jeans