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Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.

Robert B. Leighton

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

Robert B. Leighton

The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a "condition" in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels a force. This potentiality for producing a force is called an electric field.

Robert B. Leighton

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

Robert B. Leighton

Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.

Robert B. Leighton

Atoms are completely impossible from the classical point of view.

Robert B. Leighton

Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.

Robert B. Leighton

Robert B. Leighton

Robert B. Leighton

Born: September 10, 1919

Died: March 9, 1997 (aged 77)

Bio: Robert Benjamin Leighton was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology.

Known for:

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Principles of Modern Physics (1959)
Quantum mechanics

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