"History of science played a very important role for me. Before I knew well how to do an experiment, I knew why Joliot has missed the neutron, why his wife missed the fission, why they succeeded in having artificial radioactivity, and even why they almost missed the other things, by doing very nice experiments, but didn't come to the conclusion. That is science. Science is doubt, is research. It is not something which is—and that is the danger of teaching—which is too academic and which the people explain [to] you... it is like the logic thing that comes out of the computer, which is not true. You have intuition, you have passion."
History of science

January 1, 1970

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