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Sir William Lawrence Bragg
(31 Mar 1890 - 1 Jul 1971)

Australian-English physicist.


Science Quotes by Sir William Lawrence Bragg (2)

God runs electromagnetics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by the wave theory, and the devil runs it by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
— Sir William Lawrence Bragg
In Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists (1978), 159.
See also:  |  Electromagnetism (3)  |  Quantum Theory (12)

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
— Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Quoted in Arthur Koestler, John Raymond Smythies, Beyond Reductionism
See also:  |  Discovery (82)  |  Science (230)  |  Thought (35)


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