"I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries."

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"I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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"Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world."

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"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."

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"In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge."

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"Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds."

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