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"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
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"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
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"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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"I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really."
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"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."
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"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
Time
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
Technology
"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."
Time
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
Job
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
Nature
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."
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"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."
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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
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"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."
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