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Gabriel Lippmann
(16 Aug 1845 - 13 Jul 1921)
French physicist.
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Science Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann (2)
Everyone believes in the normal law, the experimenters because they imagine that it is a mathematical theorem, and the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact.
— Gabriel Lippmann
Conversation with Henri Poincaré. In Henri Poincaré, Calcul des Probabilités (1896), 171.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
— Gabriel Lippmann
A Preface to Morals (1929, 1982), 127.
See also: | Atom (85) | Belief (37) | Force (14) | Heart (21) | Novelty (4) | Preference (2) | Radical (5) | Rejection (4) | Science And Religion (76) | Star (55)
