Hermann Bondi Quotes

#1. Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

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#2. The scientist ... must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.

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#3. 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 domain where it can do [less] harm.

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#4. [Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

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#5. 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 the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense ...

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#6. The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before ... It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.

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#7. Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

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#8. An opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

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#9. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

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#10. All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.

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#11. 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.

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