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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Waldo Emerson)
• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
• A man will turn over half a library to write one book. (Samuel Johnson)
• Scientists often have an experience that is deeply enlightening, and is not granted to everyone. It is the experience of finding that you have been wrong about something. (Steven Weinberg)
• At a time when research is becoming more and more specialized, I think it is crucial to keep some time for personal thought, to step back and ask oneself questions about the deep significance of the concepts that we employ routinely. (Claude-Cohen Tannoudji)
• Henri Poincaré worked during the same times each day in short periods of time. He undertook research for four hours a day, between 10 a.m. and noon then again from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. He would read articles in journals later in the evening.