No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. German physicist, chemist. Nobel prize, 1920. A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Gagehot Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Every experiment proves something. If it doesn't prove what you wanted it to prove, it proves something else. Nobody knows why, but the only theories which work are the mathematical ones. Michael Holt, in Mathematics in Art. Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.