My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.
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I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom.
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They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
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