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You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

Said on his retirement c.1969.

See also: | Biography (152) | History Of Science (19)

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

— Erasmus Darwin

Letter to Robert Darwin, October 1792. Quoted in Desmond King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (1999), 274.

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