"In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were."
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John Desmond Bernal in: John Desmond Bernal A History of Classical Physics: From Antiquity to the Quantum, Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1997, p. 116
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