36 Quotes by John C. Mather

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

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

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

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

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

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

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.

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.

Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.