Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

— Anthony James Leggett, Speech at the Nobel Banquet (2003)

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/leggett-speech-e.html

Speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2003.

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