36 Quotes by John C. Mather

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    There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

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    A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

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    One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

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    Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

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    I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!

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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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    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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