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Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 - 13 July 1974) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism

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Don't set your wit against a child.
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

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