Thought you might enjoy this anecdote of Dr Mollan's
Brian Whatcott Altus OK Indian Territory.
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Subject: [rete] Laboratory garbage
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 14:44:44 +0100
From: Charles Mollan <cmollan@iol.ie>
Reply-To: rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk
To: rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk <rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Laboratory garbage Hi All
Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Walton recalled that he was visiting the
Physical Laboratory at Glasgow University and saw a box full of broken
glassware. Enquiring why it wasn't thrown out, the reply was: "But it
was broken by Lord Kelvin".
Regards
Charles
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