Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Quotes

Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. December 1898 – 14. June 1961
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Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Quotes

“This elegant generalization is mathematically very appealing; but physics means facing facts. You should take up case by case.”

One should not value elegant math above physical facts. As quoted by [Sundaram, R., 1998, December 10, K. S. Krishnan—the complete physicist, Current Science, 75, 11, 1263-1265]

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