"Dead is when the chemists take over the subject."

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“To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.”

“Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.”

“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.”

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