Martin Fleischmann Professions : ChemistBorn : March 29, 1927Died : August 3, 2012 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Martin Fleischmann Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. Martin Fleischmann break-throughtwoideas It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable. Martin Fleischmann fuelcellswould-be Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. Martin Fleischmann patentsutahsecret Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around. Martin Fleischmann fusiondaddythinking Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. Martin Fleischmann scientisttreefacts One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. Martin Fleischmann themetestssong You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. Martin Fleischmann conventionalscientist The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. Martin Fleischmann replacementsfieldsproblem It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. Martin Fleischmann agemindthinking It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. Martin Fleischmann worthwhileexperimentsplenty I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. Martin Fleischmann britishknowsthinking I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium. Martin Fleischmann designviewslong I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. Martin Fleischmann becoming-morebecomingthinking I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely. Martin Fleischmann retiring American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. Martin Fleischmann britishhas-beensorganized I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. Martin Fleischmann caricaturesbritishway If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences. Martin Fleischmann giving-upintegritybelieve At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past. Martin Fleischmann i-amlookmomentwork I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. Martin Fleischmann yourbackknowyou If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature. Martin Fleischmann highgenerationyouheat Similar Authors Auguste Laurent chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann chemist August Kekule chemist Ascanio Sobrero chemist Antoine Lavoisier chemist Antoine Bechamp chemistAll Authors
