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Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

John C. Mather

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.

John C. Mather

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

John C. Mather

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

John C. Mather

I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!

John C. Mather

Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without software like it today. It is a project information management system that helps people develop a solution to a problem with many parts to track.

John C. Mather

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.

John C. Mather

When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.

John C. Mather

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.

John C. Mather

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.

John C. Mather

There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.

John C. Mather

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

John C. Mather

Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.

John C. Mather

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

John C. Mather

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

John C. Mather

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

John C. Mather

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

John C. Mather

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

John C. Mather

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

John C. Mather