Max von Laue quotes
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“With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.”
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“Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.”
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“For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.”
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“For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.”
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Source : Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1983). “Christ in a Poncho: Testimonials of the Nonviolent Struggles in Latin America”
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“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
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“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
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