Robert B. Laughlin Quotes

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• Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't…
• I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such…
• A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.
• I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
• 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…
• It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through…
• 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…
• My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure…
• 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…
• My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together…
• At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
• As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious…
• 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…
• My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to…
• 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…
• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these…
• 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…
• So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
• The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
• It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original…

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