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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.

Norman Robert Campbell

Science, like art, should not be something extraneous, added as a decoration to other activities of existence; it should be part of them, inspiring our most trivial actions as well as our noblest thoughts.

Norman Robert Campbell

To those who have not the power to think, theory will always be dangerous.

Norman Robert Campbell

Science is the noblest of the arts and men of science the most artistic of all artists.

Norman Robert Campbell

Space and time are the conceptions of theory, not of laws. They are neither necessary nor useful in the statement of the results of any experiment.

Norman Robert Campbell

Science [is] the study of those judgments concerning which universal agreement can be obtained.

Norman Robert Campbell

To regard analogy as an aid to the invention of theories is as absurd as to regard melody as an aid to the composition of sonatas.

Norman Robert Campbell

Norman Robert Campbell

Norman Robert Campbell

Born: 1880

Died: 1949 (aged 69)

Bio: Norman Robert Campbell was an English physicist and philosopher of science.

Known for:

Modern electrical theory (1907)
SERIES SPECTRA (1921)
Physics: The Elements (1920)

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