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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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