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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.

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John C Mather

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.

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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.

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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.

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John C Mather

Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.

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John C Mather

I’ve always been excited to know how we got here.

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John C Mather

Talk to people… everything good I’ve done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

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John C Mather

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

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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.

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John C Mather

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn’t quite big enough.

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John C Mather

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

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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

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