Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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Quotes

• “In this country all a man need to do is to attain a little eminence and immediately he begins to talk. … But the American people are willing to listen to any one who has attained prominence. The main fact is that we've heard a man's name a great many times; that makes us ready to accept whatever he says.”
• “When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight by making startling predictions of what the future has in store, using as their text the most recent discovery or invention.”
• “We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”
• “In a mathematical sense, space is manifoldness, or combination of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, there is the 10-dimension system.”
• “Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories.”
• “There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

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Key facts

Born

Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz , ( 1865-04-09 ) April 9, 1865, Breslau , Province of Silesia , Prussia

Died

October 26, 1923 (1923-10-26) (aged 58), Schenectady, New York , United States

Resting place

Vale Cemetery

Alma mater

University of Breslau , Union College (doctorate)

Occupations

Mathematician and electrical engineer

Awards

Elliott Cresson Medal (1913) , Cedergren Medal (1914)

Institutions

Union College , General Electric

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz in 1915 with a medal from the electrical engineering convention in Cincinnati.jpg

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