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Robert B. Laughlin

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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

Everywhere, Heart, Mother, Take, Unanticipated, Years

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.

Change, Government, Heal Itself, Legislation, Routinely, Weather

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.

Bells, Direct, Experts, Labs, Real, Understand

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Backed, Childhood, Cotton, Home, Wheat, Wheat Fields

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

Asking, Obsessed, Person, Relieved, Truth Is, Ultimate

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.

Expense, Lectures, Tear, Tears, Two, Western

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.

Hands, Lessons, Mother, Piano, Play, Pleasure

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[. . ].

Creative, Einsteins, Ironic, Space, Work

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.

Intellectual, Mother, Needs, Parent, Parents, School

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.

Firsts, Reading, Things, Work Out, Working

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.

Debates, Expose, Needs, Philosophy, Prejudice, Unclear

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.

Blow, Glasses, Managed, Propane, Torches

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.

Asking, Delicate Things, Everyday, People, Things, Words