Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working w…

Noam Chomsky
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Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2013). The Essential Chomsky, p.24, The New Press
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