VISMAYA: History & Philosophy of Physics


Ability to Wonder

More than 25 years ago, Prof. G. Srinivasan (RRI, Bengaluru), in an astrophysics class, narrated something that has stuck in my mind. 

I am paraphrasing here. 

He told us about a conversation he had with Prof. Jocelyn Bell, the discoverer of pulsars (rotating neutron stars). 

When Jocelyn was asked: What is the most important quality to do scientific research? 

She replied: ‘ability to wonder’. 

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