Sir James Jeans was a British mathematician, physicist and philosopher who wrote Physics and Philosophy.

Quotes by James Jeans in Time One

… the study of the inner working of nature passed from the engineer scientist to the mathematician

Our studies can never put us into contact with reality, and its true meaning and nature must be for ever hidden from us.

Our minds can never step out of their prison-houses to investigate the real nature of the things….which inhabit that mysterious world out beyond our sense-organs.

(A) man never chooses for himself; his past always chooses for him.

We see that we can never understand the true nature of reality.

[W]e are still, in Newton’s words, like children playing with pebbles on the sea-shore, while the great ocean of truth rolls, unexplored, beyond our reach.