49 Quotes by Jim Peebles

Sciences evolve.

I've been working in cosmology since 1964.

I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell into work with Bob Dicke, a truly great physicist who decided a few years before that that gravity is too important to ignore, as it had been in recent years in physics.

One thing that sticks in my mind is when I was a kid, and I had just learned to read, I came across one of my older sister's textbooks that explained compound pulley. I thought that was really neat, and I still do.

I've always, since I was a kid, been interested in how things work.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

Let the universe show us what it is.

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.