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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
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"Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles."
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"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
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"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not."
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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."
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"Enough research will tend to support your conclusions."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
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"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
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"I have always loved going to school."
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"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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