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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….

Frederick Seitz

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

Frederick Seitz

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.

Frederick Seitz

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

Frederick Seitz

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:

The Science Matrix (1992)
Electronic genie (1998)
On the frontier (1994)

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