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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
— Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz, Edmund Atkinson (trans.), Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects: First Series (1883), 29.
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