Carl Barus Quotes

1856–1935 United States

Carl Barus (February 19, 1856 – September 20, 1935) was an American physicist and the maternal great-uncle of the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. He was dean of the Brown University Graduate Department from 1903 until his retirement in 1926.

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Out of 1,000 men who are called, one (probably the ratio is much smaller) is chosen to do glorious scientific work.

Gentlemen, I am one of the 999 about to be forgotten.

Memory peters out like the infinite series of a ζ-function.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

The boon of an appropriate lemma is ideal generosity, and not even a mathematician can scorn its almost mathematical elegance.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

Among recent contributions we may refer in particular to Professor A. G. Greenhill's noteworthy papers... when one remembers that these complex curves reach only especially simple cases of gyroscope motion, one may get some notion of the difficulty of the problem involved.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

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