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Leo Szilard Quotes: Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.
         

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.


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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.



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A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.



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