“Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.”

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 201]

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American physicist 1921–1999

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