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Likewise, comments attributed to the physicist Albert Michelson (especially in an 1894 speech) suggest that he thought there was very little left to do in the field, except perhaps take more detailed measurements of various properties of matter.
This story is better known; when I ask colleagues they have usually heard some variant of it.
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