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Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

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To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

Never measure anything but frequency!

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