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• 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....
• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
  -- Leo Szilard -- 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....
• 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...
• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
  A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil....
• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
  -- Einstei...
• Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.
  The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One....
• Every time I look at you I am more convinced of Darwin's theory.