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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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March 26, 1938
(age 86)
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Sir Anthony James Leggett has been a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983.
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