Jim Peebles Quotes

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

The universe is a great mystery.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

Far from feeling dwarfed by the vast reaches and energy of the cosmos, what we really learn is that we are the most remarkable and complicated product of cosmic evolution, and our potential is unlimited.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

There are millions of stars out there. It is difficult to think that life does not exist in any one of them.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?