#ate

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#air #bound #breathe #care #content

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#blessed #dejected #elated #never #oppressed

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fate #former #future #his #knows

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children. ↗

— John Pople

#children #i #immeasurably #laureates #like

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

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. ↗

— John Pople

#back #contemplated #earlier #electronic #fundamental

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period. ↗

— John Pople

#brought #children #churchill #each #east

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose