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"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."
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"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."
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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
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"Prejudices save time."
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"Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy."
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"Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds."
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"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
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"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."
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"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."
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"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period."
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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."
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"In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects."
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"Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children."
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"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."
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