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The Farther The Experiment Is From Theory The Closer It Is To The Nobel Prize.
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The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
-- Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov
-- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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