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"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
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"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
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"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
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"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
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"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction."
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"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
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"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
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"Time is one of the most important components of life."
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"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."
Power
"By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college."
Life
"We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages."
Hope
"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
Life
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
Science
"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
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"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
Family
"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
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"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
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