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Vasco Ronchi
(19 Dec 1897 - 31 Oct 1988)
Italian physicist and author who worked in the field of optics. He devised the “Rochi test” using a small diffraction grating ruled 20 to 30 lines per mm to test even such large optical equipment as a telescopes at an observatory. He wrote 30 books.
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Science Quotes by Vasco Ronchi (1 quote)
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.
— Vasco Ronchi
In The Nature of Light: an Historical Survey (1970), 229
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) -- 
