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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."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
"We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any."
"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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