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Sent From (Definite): Joseph Larmor - Cambridge
Sent To (Definite): Sir Charles Scott Sherrington - Liverpool
Date: 9 Jan 1912
Description

Larmor gives Sherrington the quote a friend of his wanted (from Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures, 1884: ''I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechancical model all the way through I cannot understand'.

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