“Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, a...” — Jim Peebles Quote

“Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.”

“I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?”

“As a kid I did enjoy building things; learned quickly how to make gun powder. I built sleighs, forts, houses in the back yards of houses.”

“We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.”

“When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.”

“My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.”