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

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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.

find only like universe

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.

myself you mountain people

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.

dreams better place me

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

saying step understanding work

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?

story know time people