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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with B >> Quotes By Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| Quote #1: | "People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given." |
| Quote #2: | "It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents." |
| Quote #3: | "May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery." |
| Quote #4: | "Don't set your wit against a child." |
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