Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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)