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Quotes from Thirty Years That Shook Physics : The Story of Quantum Theory — George Gamow

1904–1968 Soviet Union

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It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.

Thirty Years That Shook Physics : The Story of Quantum Theory (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Gamow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.