36 Quotes by John C. Mather

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

I've always been excited to know how we got here.

If there is an impact on climate change due to natural causes, we need to understand that, and cannot escape responsibility to deal with what we are doing now.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.