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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
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"Tell, tell more sounds interesting and little familiar..."
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"Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science."
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"Sometimes you have to wonder until you start to wonder why you are even wondering."
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"Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind."
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"When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes."
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"When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!"
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"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."
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"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
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"There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking."
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"Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world."
Curiosity
"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
Physics
"Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter."
Family
"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside."
Business
"The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results."
Time
"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."
Living
"The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like."
Science
"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes."
Teaching
"However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students."
Research
"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
Work
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