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

Australian-English physicist and X-ray crystallographer.


Science Quotes by Sir 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 Lawrence Bragg
In Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists (1978), 159.
See also:  |  Electromagnetism (8)  |  Quantum Theory (18)

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
— Sir Lawrence Bragg
Quoted in Arthur Koestler and J. R. Smithies, Beyond Reductionism (1958), 115.
See also:  |  Discovery (166)  |  Science (444)  |  Thought (65)


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