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“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

— Linus Pauling
Chemist, two-time Nobel laureate
As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" (1995).
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