Some interesting quotes1 from 20th century
“Experiments
are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”------Max
Planck
“Imagination
is more important than knowledge.”------Albert Einstein
“How can you
do both physics and poetry ? In physics we try to
explain in simple terms something that nobody knew before. In poetry it is
the exact opposite.”
-------P.A.M.
Dirac to Oppenheimer
“When
theory and experiment agree, that is the time to be especially
suspicious.”
-------Niels Bohr
“the more accurate the calculations became the more the
concepts tended to vanish into thin air.”-------R. S. Mulliken, J. Chem. Phys. 43, S2 (1965)
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