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Amos E. Dolbear
(10 Nov 1837 - 23 Feb 1910)
physicist and inventor who was a professor at Tufts University, whose interests included electricity, batteries, the telephone and natural history. He failed to establish priority in the invention of his telephone, losing a lawsuit to Bell. In addition to professional journals and books, he wrote for the lay person in popular magazines. He wrote Art of Projecting (1877) as a manual on the use of the magic lantern to illustrate lectures.
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Science Quotes by Amos E. Dolbear (1 quote)
It is certainly true that all physical phenomena are subject to strictly mathematical conditions, and mathematical processes are unassailable in themselves. The trouble arises from the data employed. Most phenomena are so highly complex that one can never be quite sure that he is dealing with all the factors until the experiment proves it. So that experiment is rather the criterion of mathematical conclusions and must lead the way.
— Amos E. Dolbear
In Matter, Ether, Motion (1894), 89.
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.
(1987) -- 
