"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to……" — John Pople
"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."
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15 Quotes by John Pople
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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination…
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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research…
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Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is…
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I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small…
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with…
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them…
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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer…
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I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much…
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At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by…
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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of…
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More Abstractly Quotes
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long…
— Adolf Hitler
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people…
— Eric Hoffer
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of…
— Will Schwalbe
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
— Christopher Cokinos
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
— Slavoj Žižek
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment,…
— Chris Hedges
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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang…
— Wilfrid
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To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also…
— Thomas Merton
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing…
— Gerhard Richter
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