PhD Thesis Arne Lüker final version V4 - Cranfield University

Sol-Gel derived Ferroelectric Thin Films for Voltage Tunable Applications
When you start in science, you are brainwashed
into believing how careful you must be, and how
difficult it is to discover things. There's something
that might be called the 'graduate student
syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they
can make a discovery.
Francis Harry Compton Crick
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford
in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
An experiment is a question which science poses to
Nature, and a measurement is the recording of
Nature's answer.
Max Planck
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949
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