Quotes by Hermann Bondi

Hermann Bondi

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

Buzz

Opportunity

Usual

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

Knowing

Knowledge

Science

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

Facts

Littles

Science

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.

Chance

Moments

Trying

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.

Ignorance

Knowledge

Science

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.

Astronomy

Moving

Nebula

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 a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

Creativity

Persistence

Science

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 homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: 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.

Moving

Numbers

Science

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.

Attitude

Common

Stress

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

Human Nature

Religion

Science

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Astronomy

Attitude

Book

Buzz

Chance

Change

Children

Clock

Common

Creativity

Definitions

Earth

Education

Essentials

Facts

Giving

Guiding Principles

Hands

Human Nature

Ignorance

Knowing

Knowledge

Landscape

Littles

Matter

Moments

Moon

Moving

Nebula

Numbers

Opportunity

People

Persistence

Religion

Science

Stress

Talking

Theoretical Physics

Thinking

Trying

Usual

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Quotes by Hermann Bondi

Hermann Bondi

… 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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