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" 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

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" I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. "

" Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. "

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