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[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
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Hermann Bondi
Age: 85 †
Born: 1919
Born: November 1
Died: 2005
Died: September 10
Astronomer
Mathematician
University Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Sir Hermann Bondi
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... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
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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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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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The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
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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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Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.
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