September 11

British scientist, physicist and mathematician Sir James Hopwood Jeans was born on the 11th in 1877. His resume reads remarkably like fellow Briton Stephen Hawking’s does, which means that I understand maybe every other word of what he wrote, if that much. He is good for a quote however, which is proven by the following: “The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter." Jeans also noted that "Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."