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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
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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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"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."
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"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."
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"One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France."
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"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool."
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"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student."
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"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."
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"On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better."
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"The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research."
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"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer."
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"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."
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"While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time."
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