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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."
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"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
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"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
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"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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"In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College."
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"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
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