Louis de Broglie

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Louis de Broglie (15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist became a Nobel laureate in 1929 for his theory on particle waves.

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• It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.
  • La nouvelle dynamique des quanta (1928), translation by Bacciagaluppi, G., Valentini, A. (2009). Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference. Cambridge University Press. p. 380. ISBN 0521814219. 
• The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.
  • Will Quantum Physics Remain Indeterministic, in Louis de Broglie (1953). The revolution in physics: a non-mathematical survey of quanta. Noonday Press. p. 237. 
• Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
  • Dialectica, I, 326
• ... the actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and (...) there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
  • in the Foreword of book by David Bohm (1984). Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. Routledge. p. x. ISBN 0415174406. 

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