Frederick Seitz Quotes

Frederick Seitz was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.

Seitz was the 4th president of Rockefeller University from 1968–1978, and the 17th president of the United States National Academy of Sciences from 1962–1969. Seitz was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Award, and other honors. He founded the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and several other material research laboratories across the United States. Seitz was also the founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, a tobacco industry consultant and a prominent skeptic on the issue of global warming. Wikipedia

✵ 4. July 1911 – 2. March 2008

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Frederick Seitz Quotes

“The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas — your own and those offered by others….”

Frederick Seitz

Explaining his opinion on why "the most beneficial kinds of research won't get done because the most politically attractive research will get the funding instead", in an interview for the George C. Marshall Institute http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=21, (3 September 1997)

Idea , Science

“Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.”

Frederick Seitz

In an interview for the George C. Marshall Institute http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=21 (3 September 1997)

People , Learning