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Mark Zemansky
(5 May 1900 - 29 Dec 1981)
American physicist and author whose name is recognized as co-author of a popular introductory physics textbook, Sears and Zemansky’s College Physics.
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Science Quotes by Mark Zemansky (1 quote)
Teaching thermal physics
Is as easy as a song:
You think you make it simpler
When you make it slightly wrong!
Is as easy as a song:
You think you make it simpler
When you make it slightly wrong!
— Mark Zemansky
In The Physics Teacher (Sep 1970). As quoted and cited in Clifford Swartz, Cliff's Nodes: Editorials from The Physics Teacher (2006), 192.
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) -- 
