Words matter. These are the best John C. Mather Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.
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.
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?
Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It’s an amazing story.
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.
Talk to people… everything good I’ve done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.
Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.
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.
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 had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
I’ve always been excited to know how we got here.
It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.
We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
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.
A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!
There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.
My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it’s intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
