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• The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,…
• I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have…
• Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they…
• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try…
• There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
• Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

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