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"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
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"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
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"Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education."
Education
"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."
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"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
Experience
"At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)."
Power
"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."
Examination
"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."
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"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."
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