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Sir George Paget Thomson
(3 May 1892 - 10 Sep 1975)
English physicist.
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Science Quotes by Sir George Paget Thomson (2 quotes)
Probably every physicist would believe in a creation [of the universe] if the Bible had not unfortunately said something about it many years ago and made it seem old fashioned.
— Sir George Paget Thomson
'Continuous Creation and the Edge of Space', New Republic (1951), 124, 21-2.
The goddess of learning is fabled to have sprung full-grown from the brain of Zeus, but it is seldom that a scientific conception is born in its final form, or owns a single parent. More often it is the product of a series of minds, each in turn modifying the ideas of those that came before, and providing material for those that came after. The electron is no exception.
— Sir George Paget Thomson
'Electronic Waves', Nobel Lecture (7 Jun 1938). Nobel Lectures: Physics 1922-1941 (1998), 397.
See also:
- 3 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Thomson'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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