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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.

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
Unless
Measurement
Sure
Avoiding
Talking
Quantity
Sense
Definition
Find
Nonsense
Something
Definitions
Way
Measure
Specify
Method
Measuring

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