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

— Martin Lewis Perl

Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/perl-lecture.html, Martin L. Perl, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 <br class="br">Nobel prize lecture

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