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The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

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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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There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Anthony James Leggett

Anthony James Leggett
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Born: March 26, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Sir Anthony James Leggett has been a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983.

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