4 Quotes & Sayings By William Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg was born in 1913, in New York City. He studied at the City College of New York, graduating in 1933. During his college years he was heavily influenced by John Dewey's pragmatism and by the philosophy of William James. At the age of twenty-one he joined the teaching staff of Columbia University where he remained until his retirement in 1977 Read more

He is currently Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has written several books in addition to his biography of William Morris. He lives with his wife in Champaign, Illinois.

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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind. William Lawrence Bragg
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I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about. . It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent. William Lawrence Bragg
The important thing in science is not so much to...
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them William Lawrence Bragg