Hermann Bondi Quotes
- Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
- All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,…
- [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
- [Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
- 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…
- An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer…
- We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is…
- Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private…
- Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.
- Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every…
- 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…
- 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. The…