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Silvan S. Schweber
(10 Apr 1928 - )
French-American physicist , Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brandeis University, has published several books in the history science and scientist biographies, including In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe and Oppenheimer and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist (2000).
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Science Quotes by Silvan S. Schweber (1 quote)
There are now three types of scientists: experimental, theoretical, and computational.
— Silvan S. Schweber
Quoted by Victor F. Weisskopf, 'One Hundred Years of the Physical Review', in H. Henry Stroke, Physical Review: The First Hundred Years: a Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries, Vol. 1, 13.
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) -- 
