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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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"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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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
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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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"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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"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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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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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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"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
Research
"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
Attention
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
Growing up
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"I have always loved going to school."
School
"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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