David L. Webster Quotes

David Locke Webster was an American physicist and physics professor, whose early research on X-rays and Parson's magneton influenced Arthur Compton. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. November 1888 – 17. December 1976
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David L. Webster Quotes

“A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.”

in his autobiography, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison, Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 0804718792, 55]

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