The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist. — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance, they have… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible. — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image