“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

—  Jack Steinberger

Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008.

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