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Anthony James Leggett

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Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003.

 
Anthony James Leggett

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