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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."
"Every misfortune is a fortune."
"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."
"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."
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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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