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David Louis Goodstein (born April 5, 1939) is an American physicist and educator. From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.

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No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Century, Fossils, Fuel, Learn, Live, Matter

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.

Century, Civilization, Come, Energy, Way To Live

The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.

Conventionally, Fuel, Oil, Running, Start, World

The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.

Former, Keys, Self, Teaching, Thinking, Untransformed

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Carrying On, Hands, Ludwig, Science, Similarly, Turn

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