English - Scientist | March 29, 1927 - August 3, 2012
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Martin Fleischmann
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Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
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One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
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Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
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So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.
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Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.
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The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
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Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
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You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
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