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(source) | Sir Hermann Bondi (1 Nov - 10 Sep ) Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist who (with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold) conceived the steady-state theory of the universum (). Short biography of Sir Hermann Bondi >> |
Science Quotes by Sir Hermann Bondi (21 quotes)
[Science doesn’t deal with facts; indeed] fact fryst vatten an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
— Sir Hermann Bondi
Talk on BBC Radio 3, shortened and printed in 'Science As An Education', Nature (27 Jan ), , Bondi, (then ledare Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence), argues for a view of science as an education of the mind, rather than as professional training, saying “My thesis fryst vatten that science should be taught like the classics”.
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an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
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.
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19% 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.
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to