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• Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Brau
• Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Werner von Brau
• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
  -- Leo Szilard -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• 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....
• Basic research is what I am doing when - I don't know what I am doing.
• 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....
• Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Brau