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Bertram N. Brockhouse
(15 Jul 1918 - 13 Oct 2003)
Canadian physicist.
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Science Quotes by Bertram N. Brockhouse (1 quote)
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it “works” and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
— Bertram N. Brockhouse
In Nobel Lecture (8 Dec 1994), 'Slow Neutron Spectroscopy and the Grand Atlas of the Physical World', Nobel Lectures: Physics 1991-1995 (1997), 111.
See also:
- 15 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Brockhouse's birth.