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I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
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Boys
Introvert
Introverted
Extremely
Reclusive
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My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
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Home
Childhood
Cotton
Cotton Fields
Fields
Wheat
Wheat Fields
Backed
Onto
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Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.
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Aspect
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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
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Berkeley
Encounters
Firsts
Real
Encounter
Scientists
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A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.
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Asking
Obsessed
Truth Is
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The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
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Space
Modern
Vacuums
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So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
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Heart
Mother
Years
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But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
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Conflict
Embedded
Needs
Philosophy
Prejudice
Reasoning
Unclear
Debates
Deeply
Expose
Origin
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As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
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Clothes
Conscious
Mean
Modest
Roof
School
Constantly
Means
Heads
Wear
Over
Table
While
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It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.
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Paper
Physics
Senility
Theoretical
Alleged
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Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
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Educated
Gas
Lectures
Losing
Tears
Two
Western
Western Society
Expense
Lecture
Tear
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My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
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Jobs
Ambition
Different
Stanford
Well Being
Seat
Held
Whom
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I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
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Blow
Chemistry
Glasses
Hardware
Plumbing
Taught
Elementary
Glass
Hardware Store
Store
Torch
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My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
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Composing
Hands
Hated
Lessons
Mother
Play
Pleasure
Effect
Piano Lessons
Regularly
Similar
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It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
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Bells
Contact
Direct
Experts
Labs
Materials
Real
Began
Bell
Direct Contact
Fully
Semiconductor
Thus
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The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
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Delicate
Delicate Things
Everyday
Everyday Life
Noise
People
Life Nature People
Easily
Drowned
In Other Words
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It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
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Computers
Access
Curiosity
Damage
Interesting
Radio
Sinister
Allowed
Anything Else
Perhaps
Tour
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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
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Respect
Conflict
Debate
Ideas
Powerful
Revealing
Understanding
Course
Gave
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When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
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Discovery
Following
Implications
Moved
Pursue
Research
Stanford
Trying
Began
Hall
Namely
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In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
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Acquire
Development
Natural World
Profound
Thinking
Began
Interests
Motivates
Parallel
Scientific
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One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
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Enormous
Faculty
Mit
Seminars
Speakers
Terrific
Variety
Aspects
Talked
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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
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Firsts
Habit
Predecessors
Reading
Work Out
Helps
Insist
Missed
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It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed[..].
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Creative
Ironic
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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
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Concerned
Formal
Formal Education
Mother
Needs
Parent
Private School
School
Particularly
Met
Private
Schoolteacher
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Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.
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Government
Heal Itself
Weather
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