Martin Fleischmann Quotes

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• Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time…
• I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.
• American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
• I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.
• I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
• I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work…
• I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
• It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you…
• It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
• It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and…
• The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
• You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
• One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
• Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own…
• Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a…
• Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah…
• If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But…
• At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
• If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including…
• So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in…

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