For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
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Melvin Calvin Quote
“To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.”
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