"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting……" — Walter Kohn
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
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Walter Kohn
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12 Quotes by Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn has 12 quotes on this site.
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of…
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My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years -…
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company…
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's…
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I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a…
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after…
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed…
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position,…
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More Austrian Quotes
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The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
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The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was…
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I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics
— Unknown Author
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I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically…
— Tina Fey
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to…
— John Derbyshire
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I don't know what the word is in Austrian.
— Barack Obama
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European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian…
— Romano Prodi
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I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew…
— Gustav Mahler
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I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I…
— Gustav Mahler
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
— David Chalmers
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The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
— Murray Rothbard
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of…
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