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Simon van der Meer

"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."

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Amber Hurdle

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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Amber Hurdle

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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Amber Hurdle

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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Amber Hurdle

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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Amber Hurdle

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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Amber Hurdle

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."

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Simon van der Meer
"Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education."

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Simon van der Meer
"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."

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Simon van der Meer
"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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Simon van der Meer
"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."

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Simon van der Meer
"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."

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Simon van der Meer
"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."

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Simon van der Meer
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."

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Simon van der Meer
"At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)."

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