James Jeans Quotes

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

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

God ever geometrizes.

God is a geometrician.

We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.