A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing. — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share
The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae.… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual. — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
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