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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences (quantamagazine.org)
4 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> Would you give tenure to someone who’s studying coffee stains?

> I might. The paper has been cited more than 7,000 times, including by engineers developing inkjet printers and nanotechnology.

> Maybe now, but not back then. People did not like what I was doing, and they told me so. But, you know, I’ve had a lot of fun




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