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• Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
• I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who…
• About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw…
• For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
• By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to…
• I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a…
• I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in…
• The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
• Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to…
• My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts…
• It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small…

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