A battle..............................
Like musicians, like mathematicians - like elite athletes - scientists peak early and dwindle fast. It isn't creativity that fades, but stamina. Science is an endurance sport. To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is a battle between nature and nerve.
-Siddhartha Mukherjee,
The Gene: An Intimate History
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