Intensity Quotes (3)
The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false.
Advice to a Young Scientist (1979), 39.
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.
Physikalische Zeitschrift (1913), 14. Translated in Walter Moore, Schrödinger. Life and Thought (1989), 73.
See also: | Atom (92) | Crystal (9) | Determination (5) | Diffraction (2) | Interference (2) | Investigation (28) | Knowledge (341) | Phase (4) | Photograph (8) | Position (3) | Scale (2) | Spectrum (10) | Structure (37) | Wave (16)
[Science] "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
Quoted in 'Antiseptic Christianity', book review of Lindbergh, Of Flight and Life in Time magazine, (6 Sep 1948).
