Robert Laughlin ,quotes

At Berkeley I had my first enc...

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

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Western society has many flaws...

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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But the need for conflict to e...

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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It is ironic that Einsteins mo...

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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The modern concept of the vacu...

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

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Please remain calm: The Earth ...

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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So mothers everywhere take hea...

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

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The questions worth asking, in...

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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My job at Stanford is rather d...

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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When I moved to Stanford I beg...

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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As a consequence while we had ...

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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My childhood home backed onto ...

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

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My mother, who was professiona...

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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To this day I always insist on...

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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My mother also had us take pia...

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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In parallel with the developme...

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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It is an interesting fact that...

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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It was at Bell Labs that I fir...

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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I was an extremely reclusive a...

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

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A person obsessed with ultimat...

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

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