Quotes from Sir James Jeans

                    (a `good' scientist)


      "If we begin by knowing nothing, and perform no new
         experiments, we shall continue to know nothing
                       throughout all time"

      "We can still only see the rainbow, but a sun of some
      sort must exist to produce the light by which we see it"


      "As our vague and uncertain knowledge seems to suggest,
        we may be tempted to conjecture that our minds are
        in contact with reality through other than purely
                         physical means"


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   "Photons, electrons and protons have become about as meaningless
   to the physicist as `x, y z' are to the child on its first day
   of learning algebra. The most we hope for at the moment is to
   discover ways of manipulating `x, y z' without knowing what they
   are, with the result that the advance of knowledge is at present
   reduced to what Einstein has described as extracting one
   incomprehensible from another incomprehensible."



   p 68 "The New Background of Science" 1945

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