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• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light.
  It did not last; the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo....
• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
  -- Leo Szilard -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• 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...
• 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....
• Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction.
  The results are of course usually abominable. -- Tom Margerison -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R....
• Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more.
  I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them....