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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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"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
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"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."
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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
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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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"You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot."
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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."
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"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
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"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."
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"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."
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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."
School
"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
Science
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
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"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."
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"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."
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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
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"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
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