James Jeans — English Physicist born on September 11, 1877, died on September 16, 1946

Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician... (wikipedia)

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.