Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Hermann Bondi
Born: November 1, 1919
Died: September 10, 2005 (aged 85)
Bio: Sir Hermann Bondi was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the Steady State theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory.
Known for:
- Relativity and Commonsense (1964)
- Cosmology (1952)
- Science, Churchill, and me (1990)
- Assumption and myth in physical theory (1967)
- Cradles of Civilization (1969)