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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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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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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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"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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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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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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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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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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"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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"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
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"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."
Life
"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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."
Home
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
Experience
"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."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
Education
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
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"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."
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