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This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“Science is entirely dependent on constants. Anything that is not constant (natural disasters, poor construction, or other human factors) is nearly impossible to include…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to…

— Richard Dawkins

It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to…

— William Cecil Dampier

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

— Sam Kean

The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper…

— John Ziman

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

— Anonymous

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the…

— Lord Kelvin

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

— Adolf Hitler

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations,…

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always…

— R. B. Braithwaite

“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application it works…

— Gerald Holton