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Re[2]: Michaelson quote (was Re: End of Science)



Someone posted:

From Bartlett's 14th edition (omitted from 15th and 16th), citing
Michaelson's address at the dedication ceremony for the Ryerson
Physical Laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1894: "The more
important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all
been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the
possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new
discoveries is exceedingly remote. ... Our future discoveries must
be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

Thanks to whoever sent out the source on the Michaelson quote. So he
made it at the dedication of Ryerson?! That was way before my time, but
it sure brings back memories of the physics labs I had in that building
and where I first used a Wang "suitcase" calculator with the Nixie tube
display.

Rick

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