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My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

Martin Lewis Perl

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Martin Lewis Perl
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: June 24
Died: 2014
Died: September 30
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