Hermann Bondi Quotes About Newton

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

  Hermann Bondi

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

• The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moon, Knowing, Earth

• The 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 before… It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.

  Hermann Bondi

  Change, Thinking, Landscape

  "Newton and the Twentieth Century - A Personal View" by Hermann Bondi in "Let Newton Bel A New Perspective on his Life and Works" by R. Flood, J. Fauvel, M. Shortland, R. Wilson (p. 241), 1988.

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