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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.


James Laughlin


#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.


James Laughlin


#concentration #fiends #germans #good #group

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


Robert B. Laughlin


#encounter #first #had #i #professional

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.


Robert B. Laughlin


#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.


Robert B. Laughlin


#extremely #i #introverted #reclusive

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.


Robert B. Laughlin


#allowed #anything #computers #curiosity #damage

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.


Robert B. Laughlin


#alleged #beyond #first #i #important

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.


Robert B. Laughlin


#concerned #education #even #far #formal

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.


Cyndi Lauper


#laugh #sing #talk #you

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.


Robert B. Laughlin


#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous






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