"The pursuit of a goal, the brightness of which is undimmed by initial failure, is an indispensable condition, though by no means a guarantee, of final success. In my own case, such a goal has been for many years the solution of the question of the distribution of energy in the normal spectrum of radiant heat."
January 1, 1970
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