"One has to stress once again, that the mechanical world view and psychophysical interpretation accompanying it are based not on the instructions of the philosophizing mind, but on the clear and accurate facts discovered by experiment and observation; and in the cases of non-correspondence (very rare, fortunately) between the requirements of the mind and the facts, reason must adjust to the facts, and not vice versa."
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Yakov Frenkel
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (February 10, 1894 – January 23, 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of solid-state physics.
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