History-of-science Quotes

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units o...

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in ...

Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal...

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about eve...

Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamic...

... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression i...

The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the ...