“What can we sell them? Not our soul.”

—  W. W. Hansen

Hansen writing to himself in his scrapbook while pondering about industrial sponsorship in university research work, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison and Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 57]

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American physicist 1909–1949

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