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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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"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."

"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."

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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."

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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

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"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."
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