The experience that firmly placed me on a course toward a professional career in science was the four years I spent as an undergraduate at Berkeley.
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But it was impressed upon me that there was such a thing as good study habits and that I would have to acquire them if I wanted to be a scholar.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.
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.
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.
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.
Robert B. Laughlin
I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
Robert B. Laughlin
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