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Arnold Sommerfeld
(5 Dec 1868 - 26 Apr 1951)
German physicist.
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Science Quotes by Arnold Sommerfeld (1 quote)
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
— Arnold Sommerfeld
Quoted by Dudley Herschbach in 'Einstein as a Student', collected in Peter Galison (ed.), Gerald James Holton (ed.), Silvan S. Schweber (ed.), Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Srt, and Modern Culture (2008), 236. The remark quoted was footnoted as heard by Dudley Herschbach many years earlier in a class by George Polya, but not found in print.
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5 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Sommerfeld's birth.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
