“The trouble with theorists is, they never pay attention to the experiments!”

— Valentine Telegdi

as quoted by [Richard Feynman, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!": adventures of a curious character, W. W. Norton, 1985, 0393316041, 253]
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American physicist 1922–2006

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