Jim Peebles

“Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.”

“I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.”

“What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.”

“My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.”

“The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.”

“Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.”

“I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.”

“Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.”

“I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell into work with Bob Dicke, a truly great physicist who decided a few years before that that gravity is too important to ignore, as it had been in recent years in physics.”