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"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 contribution is not so enormous."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"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 because we thought that they might need to take patent protection."
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"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 fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."
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"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"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."
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"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 social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around."
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"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 and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."
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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 around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic."
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"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it."
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"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."
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