“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”
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“Doing physics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned.”
in his Nobel biography, edited by [Tore Frängsmyr, Gösta Ekspong, Nobelstiftelsen, Physics 1981-1990, World Scientific, 1993, 9810207298, 383]
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