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• The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
  -- Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R....
• Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
  -- Werner von Braun -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. -- Ambrose Bierce
• Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
• We finally get a policy-making body, but we have no policy to make.
  -- An aide to President George Bush, March 1992...
• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
  -- Leo Szilard -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• It could be a rabid tiger, it could be a Q-tip. We have no way of knowing.