Transcription: The reply made by most people in 1914 was, you are talking nonsense. But in 1924 a theory was developed explaining how material in some stars could indeed be compressed to such a density so that the result, with Sirius B, could no longer be dismissed as nonsense. Of course this was not to assume that it had to be true. It was necessary to make careful tests. Certainly it was very very difficult to explain away the original message of being a mistake. There was no doubt that the mass was at least four-fifths of that of the Sun, and in any case the mass had to be large, as otherwise it would not ... File Comment Made in Intimate Arts
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