Frank Westheimer quotes
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“Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”
-- Frank WestheimerSource : "Frank H. Westheimer, major figure in 20th century chemistry, dies at 95". news.harvard.edu. April 19, 2007.
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“A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.”
-- Frank WestheimerSource : "Murphy, Parkinson, and Peter: Laws for librarians" by Jean E. Crampon, Library Journal 113. no. 17 (p. 41), October 15, 1988.
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“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
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“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
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“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”
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“I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.”
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“Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.”
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“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”
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