"A physicist must be able to saw with a file and to file with a saw."
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advising Heinrich Kayser to favor experimental physics above mathematical training, as quoted in the biographical memoir of Heinrich Kayser.
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August Kundt
August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt (18 November 1839 – 21 May 1894) was a German physicist.
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