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The only merit of which I personally am conscious was that of having pleased myself by my studies, and any results that may be due to my researches were owing to the fact that it has been a pleasure for me to become a physicist.

— John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh On receiving the Order of Merit (1902)

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The work may be hard, and the discipline severe; but the interest never fails, and great is the privilege of achievement.

Address to the British Association in Montreal (1884)

Without encroaching upon grounds appertaining to the theologian and the philosopher, the domain of natural sciences is surely broad enough to satisfy the wildest ambition of its devotees.

Address to the British Association in Montreal (1884)

In science by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what once been published even though it be in the Russian language, is spoken of as known, and it is too often forgotten that the rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Lord Rayleigh (1884)

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