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"The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea."

"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
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"Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress."


"I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all."


"Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period."


"Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children."


"I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics."


"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."


"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."


"Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S."


"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward."


"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."
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