Quotes by John C. Mather - Page 1

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.
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Flexible
Plans
Grand
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Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.
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Chin
Exploded
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In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.
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Strange
Universe
Billion
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When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.
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Further
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The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
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Theory
Universe
Bang
Big Bang
Origin
Predominant
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I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!
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Bored
Well Rounded
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One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.
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Most Powerful
Tools
Scientific
Telephone
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There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.
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Limit
No Limit
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A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
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Achieve
Hero
Looks
Mentor
Shows
Person
Enables
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Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.
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Hubble
Interesting
Big Enough
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There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
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Strength
Great
Challenges
Numbers
Those
Organizing
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We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
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Universe
Minds
Places
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Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.
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Available
Sun
Currently
Besides
Nearest
We Cannot
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Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.
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Phenomenon
Science Good People
Conversations
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Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.
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Exploding
Helium
Hydrogen
Stars
Bang
Big Bang
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There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.
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Ultimate
Further
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We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
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Discovering
Magnificent
Universe
Totally
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Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?
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Bang
Time People Find
Big Bang
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I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.
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Art History
Courses
Passing
Arts
Challenge
Humanities
Tried
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If there is an impact on climate change due to natural causes, we need to understand that, and cannot escape responsibility to deal with what we are doing now.
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Causes
Climate
Climate Change
Impact
Responsibility
Change Responsibility Climate
Due
Escape
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With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.
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Chapter
Mission
Lights
Rewrite
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As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.
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Biographies
Inspired
Great Me Who
Teachers
Charles
Darwin
Galileo
Great Teachers
Schools
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I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.
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Amazement
Awe
Humans
Response
Proper
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When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.
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Chance
Deadline
Equipment
Works
Otherwise
Rocket
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Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical elements are understood - climate change, energy supply, health care, and infrastructure, to name just a few.
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Climate
Climate Change
Elements
Health Care
Infrastructure
Understood
Nation
Energy Supply
Facing
Problems
Solved
Supply
Technical
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My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
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Blessed
Brilliant
Colleagues
Guidance
Mentoring
Nasa
Efforts
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Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.
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Amazing
Made
Stars
Used
Years
Years Ago
Time Stars Look
Back
Bang
Big Bang
Billion
Time Amazing Look
Idea
Explosion
Galaxies
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I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.
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Science
Amazed
Dedicated
Found
Honor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Produce
Results
Special
Team
Science Men Women
Men Women Honor
Rare
Collaborated
Talented
Science Women Men
Recognized
Thrilled
Truly
Women And Men
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Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without software like it today. It is a project information management system that helps people develop a solution to a problem with many parts to track.
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Manage
Management
Mismanagement
Software
Track
Guarantee
No Guarantee
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My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.
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Conversation
Derive
Herself
Meeting
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My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.
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Infinity
Realizing
Recollection
Meant
Earliest
Entire
Number
Fill
Saw
Largest
Page
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It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
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Nasa
Radiation
Bang
Big Bang
Experiment
Measure
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My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
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Courage
Wise
Chicago
Died
Gentle
Heroic
Intelligent
Mother
Reputation
Family Mother Always
Against
Fight
Figure
Suburban
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We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
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Moses
Mountain
Tablets
Myself People Know
Thousands Of Years
Traditions
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