"I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years."

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"I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."

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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

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"You cannot survive if you do not know the past."

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"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."

Age

"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."

College

"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."

Time

"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."

Friendship

"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."

Home

"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."

Being

"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."

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"In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects."

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"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."

Problems

"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."

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