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"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."
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"Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!"
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"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer."
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"Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity."
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"Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change."
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"Never joined the wrong boat. When the destination is right, and the direction is wronged, everything goes wrongly!"
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"Of all the thoughts that hover in your mind, the one you deliberately choose and act upon - changes your LIFE!"
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"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
Decision
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
Education
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
Research
"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
Attention
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
Growing up
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
Home
"I have always loved going to school."
School
"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
Life
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