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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Bill Bryson | In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. | |
| Franklin P. Adams | I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. | |
| Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) | When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. - (Mathematician) | |
| Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) | I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. - (Mathematician) | |
| Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) | You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
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| Marston Bates | Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. | |
| Marston Bates | Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. | |
| Werner von Braun | Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. | |
| Westheimer's Discovery | A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library. |
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