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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

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God runs electromagnetics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by the wave theory, and the devil runs it by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

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The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment Now. As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

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It is not easy to be sure whether the crucial idea is really one's own or has been unconsciously assimilated in talks with others.

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
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William Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg
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Born: March 31, 1890
Died: July 1, 1971 (aged 81)
Bio: Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.

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