Hermann Bondi Quotes

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

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

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

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.

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 at any time.

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

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

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.

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.