Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Ziman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British physicist John Ziman.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

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.

British - Physicist | May 16, 1925 - January 2, 2005

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The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

John Ziman

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.

John Ziman