49 Quotes by Jim Peebles

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in a halfway coherent form for a course. That has led me to ideas in research. Even freshman physics leads to thoughts that lead to other thoughts that are stimulating.

I think that my research is valuable to my teaching. I think that the two complement each other and I'm able to present somewhat more stimulating lectures because of what's happening in research, so it's a good complement.

I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.