"I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others."

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Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

— Joao Magueijo