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" As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. "

Ernst Fischer
" I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "

Ernst Fischer
" If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. "

Ernst Fischer
" In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. "

Ernst Fischer
" The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. "

Ernst Fischer
" To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. "

Ernst Fischer
" American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. "

Martin Fleischmann
" At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past. "

Martin Fleischmann
" British science has a certain style and, of course, my problem is that, although I was born in Czechoslovakia, I am the archetypal British scientist. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I retired from full-time work at the University of Southampton when I was age 56. "

Martin Fleischmann
" I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. "

Martin Fleischmann
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