Gerald Holton Quotes

The Power Of The Deductive Network Produced In Physics Has Been Illustrated In A Delightful Article By Victor F. Weisskopf. He Begins By Taking The Magnitudes Of Six Physical Constants Known By Measurement: The Mass Of The Proton, The Mass And Electric Charge Of The Electron, The Light Velocity, Newton's Gravitational Constant, And The Quantum Of Action Of Planck.

He Adds Three Of Four Fundamental Laws (e.g., De Broglie's Relations Connecting Particle Momentum And Particle Energy With The Wavelength And Frequency, And The Pauli Exclusion Principle), And Shows That One Can Then Derive A Host Of Different, Apparently Quite Unconnected, Facts That Happen To Be Known To Us By Observation Separately ....

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