Peter Debye quotes
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“Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.”
-- Peter DebyeSource : Inaugural lecture for his professorship of mathematical physics at the University of Utrecht, 1913.
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“If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.”
-- Peter Debye
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“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”
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“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.”
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“There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.”
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Source : Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439
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“No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”
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