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For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it is a grave error to suppose that the whole of experimental physics can be brought under this heading. We can start measuring only when we know what to measure: qualitative observation has to precede quantitative measurement, and by making experimental arrangements for quantitative measurements we may even eliminate the possibility of new phenomena appearing.

Hendrik Casimir

I should like to find a way of discouraging unnecessary publications, but I have not found a solution, save the radical one... that all scientific papers be published anonymously.

Hendrik Casimir

The number of speakers of Broken English is so overwhelming and there are so many for whom B.E. is almost the only way of expressing themselves... that it is about time that Broken English be regarded as a language in its own right.

Hendrik Casimir

Scientific revolutions are not made by scientists. They are declared post factum, often by philosophers and historians of science rather than by the scientists themselves.

Hendrik Casimir

Hendrik Casimir

Hendrik Casimir

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Born: July 15, 1909

Died: May 4, 2000 (aged 90)

Bio: Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors in 1934 and the Casimir effect in 1948.

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