Quote#Politics & Power
The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science…
Quote byAlbert Abraham Michelson · 1852–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Light Waves and Their Uses. By Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1903, pp 23-25..
English (original)
The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.
— Albert Abraham Michelson
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