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 A. Michelson

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Scientific progress Laws of physics

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Albert A. Michelson

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Lecture

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

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English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Physicist

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United States

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Citation

Michelson, Albert A. "Comparison of the Microscope and Telescope with the Interferometer." Light Waves and Their Uses lecture series. 1899, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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