“Only become an astronomer if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is (approximately) what you will receive.” and “The popular conception of scientific research: “You must be so very clever to be able to do it” could not be wider of the mark. Real investigation is not the reception of a transcendental vision, a process thought beyond the power of the ordinary mortal. The prayer of the scientist might well be: Lord, show me the obvious.”
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