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Old 20th Nov 2018, 9:44 pm   #91
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Default Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?

Sorry, I did look but missed it. I suspect that relatively few people will have heard of Maxwell and understand what he did. That leads me to the name of another great physicist, for whom the same would be true; Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize winner in 1933. Dirac holds a special place in my heart for his remark,

"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."

This was prompted in response to Oppenheimer's fascination with poetry. I'm with Dirac!!!.

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