John R. Platt

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It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
- John R. Platt
Collection: Carpe Diem
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We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
- John R. Platt
Collection: Lying
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Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.
- John R. Platt
Collection: Moon