“Why do you want to come into physics? All is done and understood.”

—  Gustav Kirchhoff

as an advice to Max Planck not to study physics, by Anton Z. Capri, Quips, Quotes and Quanta http://worldscibooks.com/physics/6546.html. World Scientific (2007). p. 1. ISBN 9812709207
a similar advice has been given by Philipp von Jolly, as related by Max Planck in his lecture Vom Relativen zum Absoluten (December 1, 1924).
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