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The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas — your own and those offered by others….

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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

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Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

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Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz
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Born: July 4, 1911
Died: March 2, 2008 (aged 96)
Bio: Frederick Seitz was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.
Known for:
  1. The Science Matrix (1992)
  2. Electronic genie (1998)
  3. On the frontier (1994)

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