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"You have to have an alertness to deal with the unexpected. The history of science is filled with almost-made discoveries, missed by a hairline because they didn't have the alertness to realize they had a discovery." -- Clyde Tombaugh (b. 1906-02-04, d. 1997-01-17), who was alert enough eighty years ago today.

"I am supposed to teach about the Uncertainty Principle and the Schrödinger Equation this morning. I am allowed to be a little weird." -- silmaril, 2008-02-06