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Robert B. Laughlin

"It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do."

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Donna Grant

"These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion."

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Donna Grant

"Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel."

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Donna Grant

"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."

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Donna Grant

"I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution."

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Donna Grant

"We are all experts in our own little niches."

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Donna Grant

"Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized."

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Donna Grant

"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."

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Donna Grant

"It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields."

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