| | Double Quotation: 
Nobel Lecture in Chemistry 1994, by Prof. George A. OLAH 
"Intensive, critical studies of a controversial topic always help to
eliminate possibility of any errors. One of my favorite quotation is
that by George Bekessy (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1961). 45 “[One] way
of dealing with errors have friends who are willing to spend the time
necessary to carry out a critical examination of the experimental
design beforehand and the results after the experiments been completed.
An even better way is to have an enemy. An enemy is willing to a vast
amount of time and brain power to ferreting out errors both large and
small, this without any compensation. The trouble is that really
capable enemies are scarce; most of them are only ordinary. Another
trouble with enemies is that they sometimes develop into friends and
lose a good deal of their zeal. It was in this way the writer lost his three
best enemies. Everyone, not just scientists, need a few good enemies!” "
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