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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
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"Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen."
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"Yes, I was really good in physics and in math."
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"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
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"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons."
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"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."
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"Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield."
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"An immovable object and an unstoppable force don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler."
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"The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired."
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"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern."
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"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
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"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read."
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"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
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"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
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"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
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