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I Knew, However, That It Would Cost Ten Times What I Had Available In Order To Build A Molecular Beam Machine. I Decided To Follow A Byway, Rather Than The Highway. It Is A Procedure I Have Subsequently Recommended To Beginning Scientists In This Country, Where Research Strategy Is Best Modelled On That Used By Wolfe At The Plains Of Abraham.
-John Charles Polanyi
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I Knew, However, That It Would Cost

John Charles Polanyi
I Knew, However, That It Would Cost Ten Times What I Had Available In Order To Build A Molecular Beam Machine. I Decided To Follow A Byway, Rather Than The Highway. It Is A Procedure I Have Subsequently Recommended To Beginning Scientists In This Country, Where Research Strategy Is Best Modelled On That Used By Wolfe At The Plains Of Abraham.
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