36 Quotes by John C. Mather

There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.

We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.