Quotes from book
The Mysterious Universe

The Mysterious Universe

The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan.


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“And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.”

Source: The Mysterious Universe (1930), p. 100, 1937 ed.

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James Jeans photo

“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”

Source: The Mysterious Universe (1930), p. 19, Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.

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