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This 'truth for truth's sake' is a delusion of so-called savants.

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One of the things which distinguishes ours from all earlier generations is this, that we have seen our atoms.

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It [physics] is less known, I suppose, than that of any other major science; and we who practice it scarcely dare avow ourselves as physicists in any group of laymen, for we know too well that if we do we shall be asked first to spell the word and then to define it!

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It does not take an idea so long to become "classical" in physics as it does in the arts.

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Mathematics is not a complete and perfected body of doctrine which one goes to seek in the scriptures whenever one has need of it.

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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

Karl K. Darrow

Karl K. Darrow

Born: November 26, 1891
Died: June 7, 1982 (aged 90)
Bio: Karl Kelchner Darrow was an American physicist and secretary of the American Physical Society from 1941 to 1967. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago under Robert A. Millikan in 1917.

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