"You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps."
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as quoted by Edwin E. Salpeter in My Sixty Years with Hans Bethe, in an edition by
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Hans Bethe
Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.
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