“Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.”

— Victor Frederick Weisskopf

[Victor Weisskopf, Growing up with quantum field theory: The development of quantum electrodynamics. In: The birth of particle physics (ed. L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson), Cambridge University Press, 1983, 75]

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