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• Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipme
  a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain.... But they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings....
• The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
• In any academic area or professional field, it is just as important to recognize the limits of our knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and information.
• Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
• Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavou
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress - in direct proportion to the importance of his original contribution....
• Jones's First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavo
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution....