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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
Communication
"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
Attention
"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
Years
"Everybody has to learn for the first time."
Time
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
Age
"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
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"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."
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"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
Science
"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
Talent
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