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I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

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I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

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Everybody has to learn for the first time.

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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

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If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

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Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

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I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

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I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 23rd, 1925

Died: February 2nd, 2008

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