Peter Debye famous quotes

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
-- Peter Debye

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If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
-- Peter Debye

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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.