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Melba Newell Phillips
(1 Feb 1907 - 8 Nov 2004)
American physicist.
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Science Quotes by Melba Newell Phillips (1 quote)
In the history of scientific development the personal aspects of the process are usually omitted or played down to emphasize that the thing discovered is independent of the discoverer and that the result can be checked. But, as Einstein has pointed out, scientific concepts are 'created in the minds of men,' and in some way the nonprofessional aspects of life and mind are inevitably related to the professional.
— Melba Newell Phillips
American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics Newsletter (Fall 2004).
See also:
- 1 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Phillips'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.
(1987) -- 
