If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are tr…

- Hermann Bondi

The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to w…

- Hermann Bondi

The scientist … 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…

- 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

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.

- Hermann Bondi

What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest thi…

- Hermann Bondi

Sometimes 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 nu…

- Hermann Bondi

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 l…

- Hermann Bondi

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

- Hermann Bondi