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"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"Life experience is the new work experience."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."
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"I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs."
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"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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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 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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"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
"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
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."
Art
"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."
Home
"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
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
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"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
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"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
Nature
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