Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1936

Letter ID: 1584

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

March 26, 1936

No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is evening. You know they take these pulse and respiration rates Morning and Evening of which M and E are shorthands, and one of which I suppose you will make mad and the other one of the three you have divined! But what is this “Jones – knows and doesn’t wonder”?

Jeans, Jeans, Jeans – not Jones!

Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E.