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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
Father
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
Science
"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
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"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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