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.

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• John C. Mather:

  I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it

• John C. Mather:

  We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well,

• John C. Mather:

  It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams tha

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  My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a m

• John C. Mather:

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

• John C. Mather:

  There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work

• John C. Mather:

  Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before

• John C. Mather:

  When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

• John C. Mather:

  Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're

• John C. Mather:

  With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book