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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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.Robert B. Laughlin
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
I, for example, used to take appliances apart when they broke in an attempt to fix them, which I rarely did successfully, being a kid.
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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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My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
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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
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