If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19ยฝ 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.
Hermann BondiOur 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.
Hermann Bondi[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
Hermann Bondi