"My father was a professor of civil engineering……" — Eric Allin Cornell
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
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21 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency…
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my…
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy…
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the…
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It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years…
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Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than…
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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder…
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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