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"Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone."

"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."

"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."

"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children."

"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary."
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"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."


"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."


"Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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