Arthur Schuster Quotes

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If we ransack old books of science we often come across passages of long-forgotten writings, in which, when they are properly construed, when new meanings are given to old words and obscure expressions are freely translated, we may trace a faint prophetic glimmering of a modern theory.

Arthur Schuster
Scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words.

Arthur Schuster
Astronomy, the oldest and most juvenile of the sciences, may still have some surprises in store. May anti-matter be commended to its care!

Arthur Schuster
The advance of science takes place through many channels, and each generation has its own part to play. Particular ideas, particular faculties are wanted at particular times, and no one can foretell where success will be.

Arthur Schuster
A scientific man, in so far as he influences the progress of science cannot be far ahead of his time, and though his writings may be read and admired centuries after his death, he will have written in vain if he has not been appreciated by his contemporaries or by those who immediately followed.

Arthur Schuster
Mathematicians are always sufficiently resourceful to cope with any problem set to them by the experimentalist, and as Poincare likes to tell us, we can always find a new hypothesis to fit a new fact.

Arthur Schuster
Most probably some law hitherto undiscovered exists.

Arthur Schuster
Difficulties cease to trouble us either when they are surmounted, or when we have become accustomed to them.

Arthur Schuster