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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."

"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."
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"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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