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Quotes from Nobel Prize autobiography — Robert B. Laughlin

born 1950 United States

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The most interesting thing I learned during this time was how small a nuclear warhead was.

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)

The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated.

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)

Real understanding of a thing comes from taking it apart oneself, not reading about it in a book or hearing about it in a classroom.

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)

It is sobering thought that these missiles were actually deployed in continental Europe in those days and that on at least one occasion, namely the 1973 Arab-Israel war, there was an alert serious enough to leave the commanding officers trembling.

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)

I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot be forseen but must be discovered, for their subtlety and complexity transcends the present state of science.

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert B. Laughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.