Broglie Quotes

#1. The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.

Dew Platt

#2. Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.

Louis De Broglie

#3. 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

#4. I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.

Crystal Woods

#5. 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 from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Louis De Broglie

#6. Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

John Stewart Bell

#7. It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.

Louis De Broglie

#8. We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

Louis De Broglie

#9. After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons.

Louis De Broglie

#10. I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

Jonathan Aitken

#11. Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself."
"Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly.

Douglas Adams

#12. My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.

Dashiell Hammett

#13. As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

Dave Barry

#14. Nothing in this world had a fixed place. Everything was in motion.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#15. The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

Louis De Broglie

#16. Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Louis De Broglie

#17. In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Alain Badiou

#18. The founders and grand theorists of modern (quantum and relativity) physics: Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Eddington, Pauli, de Broglie, Jeans, and Planck.

Ken Wilber