Jim Peebles Quotes

born 1935 Canada

Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.

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I don't think there is a final theory of anything. It's theories all the way down.

Don't pay too much attention to that Nobel Prize. They have to be capricious — they have to be. And that means that people fully deserving the award don't get it.

I have been working in cosmology for 55 years ... I'm the last man standing, so to speak, from those early days.

It's a term that Einstein recognized as allowed by his theory — he threw it in and then, in disgust, threw it out again ... It's back!

The ideas that prove to be of lasting interest are likely to build on the framework of the now standard world picture, the hot big bang model of the expanding universe. The full extent and richness of this picture is not as well understood as I think it ought to be, even among those making some of the most stimulating contributions to the flow of ideas.

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