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We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
- John C. Mather
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#Myself
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Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.
- John C. Mather
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#Imagine
#Stars
#Sun
#Way
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.
- John C. Mather
#Chance
#Know
#Mind
#Never
#Way
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.
- John C. Mather
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#Hydrogen
#People
#Stars
#Us
One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.
- John C. Mather
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#Most
#Powerful
#Telephone
#Tools
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.
- John C. Mather
#Art
#History
#Humanities
#Music
#Success
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.
- John C. Mather
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#Challenges
#Colleagues
#Work
Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.
- John C. Mather
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#Even
#Stars
#Up
#Your
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.
- John C. Mather
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#Understand
#Universe
#Will
I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
- John C. Mather
#How
#Know
#More
#Open
#People
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.
- John C. Mather
#Change
#Energy
#Health
#Today
#World
The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
- John C. Mather
#Big Bang
#Big
#Origin
#Theory
#Universe
I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.
- John C. Mather
#Honor
#Men
#Rare
#Science
#Women
A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
- John C. Mather
#Achieve
#Achievement
#Hero
#Like
#Person
There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
- John C. Mather
#Challenges
#Great
#Numbers
#Strength
I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!
- John C. Mather
#Being
#Bored
#Boring
#Education
#Us
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