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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Air Back Blast Bring Building Certainly Fun Model Open Parachute Remember Rocket Rockets Safely Watch Wonder Would

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My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Actually Began Effort End Fellow First Get Habit Lot Novel Put Really School Seemed Semester Smart Students Thing Very Well Were Work

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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

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Topics: Avoid Being Came Doing Good Hardly Realize Reason Something I Came

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I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Born California I Was Born

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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

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Topics: Civil Engineering English Father High High School Mit Mother Professor School Taught

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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

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Topics: Always Attention Close Facts Habits Had Head Little Me More Over Paying Reading School Seems Voracious

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Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

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Topics: Found Less Made Me Most Read Teachers Trouble

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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: American Culture Decade Period Teenage Teenage Years Years Youth Youth Culture 1970S

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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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Topics: Modern Old-Fashioned Partly

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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Chess Clubs Freshman Freshman Year High High School Joined Math School Year

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: December 19th, 1961

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