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It is doubtful if our understanding of the unity of external nature can ever be illuminated by the lamp of anyone of the natural sciences.

Ernest Fox Nichols

Matter has two indisputable hallmarks, two properties in the possession of which all the infinitely varied forms of matter unite, inertia and weight.

Ernest Fox Nichols

In one sense the principal difference between X-rays and the yellow light from a sodium flame is analogous to the difference between the air disturbances caused by an irregular jumble of sharp thin reports of small percussion caps, and the droning of a heavy organ pipe. One is a tangle of single shocks, the other a steady wave motion.

Ernest Fox Nichols

In the natural sciences as in more practical affairs, how we have arrived is as important as where we have arrived.

Ernest Fox Nichols

Ernest Fox Nichols

Ernest Fox Nichols

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Born: July 1, 1869

Died: April 29, 1924 (aged 54)

Bio: Ernest Fox Nichols was an American educator and physicist. He was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas, and received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1888.

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