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John Trowbridge
(5 Aug 1843 - 18 Feb 1923)
American physicist and educator who was among the first American teachers to encourage students in original research in physics, adding a modern plan of laboratory practice to the customary regime of lectures and demonstrations. He investigated spectroscopy and electrical phenomena.
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Science Quotes by John Trowbridge (2 quotes)
The birds can fly,
An’ why can’t I?
An’ why can’t I?
— John Trowbridge
In poem, 'Darius Green and his Flying-Machine', Vagabonds: And Other Poems (1869), 115.
We have one great guiding principle which, like the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, will conduct us, as Moses and the Israelites were once conducted, to an eminence from which we can survey the promised scientific future. That principle is the conservation of energy.
— John Trowbridge
In 'What is Electricity?', Popular Science Monthly (Nov 1884), 26, 77.
See also:
- 5 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Trowbridge'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) -- 
