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I have to be where the best work can be done.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Best Work
Best Work Done
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A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Academic
Distinction
Energy
Renewable Energy
Between
Energy Renewable Energy Renewable
Renewable
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Modified
Profoundly
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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Achieving
Dedicate
Efforts
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Space
Spain
Sunshine
Certainly
Italy
Perhaps
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Original Ideas
Carefully
Contributions
Preserved
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Alternatives
Life Your Wait
Ring
Depended
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Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.
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Available
Closest
Directly
Substitute
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Electrical
Elementary School
March
Small Town
Elementary
Italy
School Teacher
Telephone
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Columbia
Columbia University
Half Years
Particle
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Observation
Unstable
Appear
Fundamental
Hundreds
Led
Particle
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Economic Policy
Energy Policy
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Implementing
Rewards
Short Time
Time Long Energy
Date
Fossil
Sources
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Nuclear
Pure
Joint
Newly
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
Carlo Rubbia / Physicist
Construction
Electrical
Hardware
Almost Everything
Aspects
Attracted
Mechanical
Scientific
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Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
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Art
Science
Reality
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