For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light… — 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
