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    We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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