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• 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...
• 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....
• Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!
  and all was light. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton It did not la...
• All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- E.
  Rutherford (who later won a Nobel prize in Chemistry)...
• T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E
• It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
  -- quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)...
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