The scientist โฆ must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.
Hermann BondiThe 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 beforeโฆ It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.
Hermann BondiThe 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.
Hermann BondiSometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.
Hermann Bondi