The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of … - Hermann Bondi

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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

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 way where you can say something without knowing everything.

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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

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[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

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The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.

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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 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.

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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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