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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."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields."

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Robert B. Laughlin
"Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth."

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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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