Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

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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…
• My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school…
• After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
• My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
• 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…
• Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
• Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the…
• It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to…
• Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be…
• With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
• I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open…
• My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
• 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…
• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
• Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
• I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
• I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
• Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
• There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

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