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A [Donald] Trump win might be bad for stocks, but it would be very positive for the dollar and Treasurys.

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Walter Kohn

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

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I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.

Einstein, Eye, See, Thinking, Writing

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

Commitment, Continues, Love, Peace, Peaceful, World

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Extraordinary, Mathematics, Program, Toronto
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