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Peter Debye
(24 Mar 1884 - 2 Nov 1966)
Dutch-American physical chemist.
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Science Quotes by Peter Debye (2 quotes)
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
— Peter Debye
In Richard Hamming, Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (1973), 704, footnote, without citation.
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
— Peter Debye
From inaugural lecture at Utrecht on the kinetic theory of matter and its modern development (1913), as quoted in Julio Antonio Gonzalo and Carmen Aragó López (eds.), Great Solid State Physicists of the 20th Century (2003), 157.
See also:
- 24 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Debye's birth.
- Polar Molecules, by Peter J. W Debye. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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