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Imagination and obsession are the keys to getting a good idea. To help your imagination keep your eyes and ears open. Avoid the "not invented here prejudice".

— Martin Lewis Perl

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It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

The best colleagues are those who will think about your ideas, who will talk with you and offer insight, constructive criticism. No one needs to be crushed for having a new idea.

You may turn a bad idea into a good idea — don't kill the bad idea prematurely. A bad idea can evolve into a good idea.

For every good idea, expect to have five, ten, twenty wrong or useless ideas. You cannot avoid the bad ideas if you keep your imagination free. There is no spam filter for bad ideas.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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