Saul Dushman - Fundamentals of atomic physics (1951)

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From Archimedes to Newton and to Einstein there has been a continuity of effort to attain that ideal which we call scientific truth. The story of this growth of ideas and understanding is one that is not only extremely interesting but also inspiring since it has revealed such potentialities of the human mind to conceive almost transcendental ideas which may be tested by experiment and observation.

Saul Dushman

Science is distinguished primarily by the method of investigation through quantitatively controlled experiments.

Saul Dushman

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be.

Saul Dushman

Man's intellectual development has extended for a period of at least 5,000 years. However, it has been only during the past three centuries that scientists have realized their real objectives and have learned to use what we designate the scientific method.

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