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Robert B. Laughlin

"It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists."

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Donna Grant

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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Donna Grant

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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Donna Grant

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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Donna Grant

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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Donna Grant

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

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Donna Grant

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

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Donna Grant

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

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Donna Grant

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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Donna Grant

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work."

Work

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Robert B. Laughlin
"It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister."

Computer

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Robert B. Laughlin
"When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery."

Discovery

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Robert B. Laughlin
"I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs."

Hardware

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Robert B. Laughlin
"In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day."

Love

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Robert B. Laughlin
"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates."

Science

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Robert B. Laughlin
"At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists."

First

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Robert B. Laughlin
"The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life."

Life

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Robert B. Laughlin
"It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do."

Experts

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Robert B. Laughlin
"To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed."

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