Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Ziman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British physicist John Ziman.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
John Ziman

John Michael Ziman was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.
The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness. — © John Ziman
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
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