Pieter Zeeman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Photography #Records #Made
On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Moving On #Atoms #Lines
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Giving #Lines #Surprise
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Sodium #Vapour #Rotation
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Light #Ideas #Mirrors
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Work #Past #Track
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Running #Moving #Law
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
-- Pieter Zeeman

#Ratios #Size #Lines

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
You tempt me. I canâ€™t be tempted. Iâ€™m not made to be tempted.
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Pieter Zeeman famous quotes

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