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The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into. . . the instrumentalization of man.

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My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

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I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

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My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

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