"We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense..."

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Source : Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Hermann Bondi

#Talking Quotes #Way Quotes #Measurement Quotes

“Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.”
“Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.”
“Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.”

Source : "'It Doesn't Have to Be That Way': How to manage a hassle-free divorce" by Laura Wasser, www.today.com. October 2, 2013.
“The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.”
“at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder”
“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .”
“I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy”
“Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.”

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