Quotes from Hermann Bondi

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Our 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.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

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

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.