American - Scientist | August 7, 1946 -
When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.
John C. Mather
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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.
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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.
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The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
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Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.
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Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.
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I've always been excited to know how we got here.
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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.
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I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
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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.
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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.
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My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
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