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Gerald Holton

(1922) Physicist

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Gerald Holton is a physicist.

Quick Facts About Gerald Holton

Born: May 23, 1922
Profession: Physicist

About Gerald Holton

[Wikidata] American physicist... | [Wikipedia] Gerald James Holton is a German-born American physicist, historian of science, and educator, whose professional interests also include philosophy of science and the fostering of careers of young men and women. He is Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of the history of science, emeritus,

Quotes by Gerald Holton

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…

Appropriate

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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Giants

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“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins…

Constants-of-nature

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Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are…

Determine

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If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...…

Benevolent

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Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised…

Best time

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To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting…

Accounts

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

Anthropic principle

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