We don't teach our students enough of the intellectual content of experiments - their novelty and their capacity for opening new fields... My own view is that you take these things personally. You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It's too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it's important. You must feel the thing yourself...
-- Isidor Rabi
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