Ocupation: Physicist
Life: September 21, 1853 - February 21, 1926
Birthday: September 21
Death: February 21
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice of physics. By measurement to knowledge [door meten tot weten] I should like to write as a motto above the entrance to every physics laboratory.
topic: Knowledge, Writing, Doors, Tots