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John Hopkinson
(27 Jul 1849 - 27 Aug 1898)
English physicist and electrical engineer who investigated applications of electricity and magnetism to motors and dynamos. He devised the three-phase system for the transmission of electricity.
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Science Quotes by John Hopkinson (3 quotes)
In the future it is likely that educated men will have to work harder and receive less.
— John Hopkinson
From James Forrest Lecture (3 May 1894) at an Extra Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 'The Relation of Mathematics to Engineering', collected in Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1894), 346.
Our knowledge must always be limited, but the knowable is limitless. The greater the sphere of our knowledge the greater the surface of contact with our infinite ignorance.
— John Hopkinson
Conclusion of the James Forrest Lecture (3 May 1894) at an Extra Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 'The Relation of Mathematics to Engineering', collected in Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1894), 347.
We cannot get more out of the mathematical mill than we put into it, though we may get it in a form infinitely more useful for our purpose.
— John Hopkinson
From James Forrest Lecture (3 May 1894) at an Extra Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 'The Relation of Mathematics to Engineering', collected in Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1894), 346.
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- 27 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Hopkinson's birth.
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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