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Richard Ernst

"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."

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"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."

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Akiroq Brost

"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

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Akiroq Brost

"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

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Akiroq Brost

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

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Akiroq Brost

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

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Akiroq Brost

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

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Akiroq Brost

"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."

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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

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Akiroq Brost

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

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"I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home."

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"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

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Richard Ernst
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."

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Richard Ernst
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."

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Richard Ernst
"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."

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Richard Ernst
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."

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Richard Ernst
"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."

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Richard Ernst
"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."

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Richard Ernst
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."

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Richard Ernst
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."

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Richard Ernst
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."

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Richard Ernst
"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."

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