Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

• Mantén todo en perspectiva si quieres ser feliz. Por ejemplo... Perder un brazo es más un inconveniente que una catástrofe. Las cosas podrían ser mucho peores, así que ¿por qué no dar gracias de que no lo sean y así alegrarte en lugar de entristecerte?

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Perspective

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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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  Realizing, Reason, Be Good

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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.

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  Fun, Air, Watches

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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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  Madre, padre, escuela

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• Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

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  Writing, School, Chess

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• Mis compañeros allí eran muy inteligentes, pero lo realmente novedoso era que parecían esforzarse mucho en su trabajo escolar. Al final de mi primer semestre, yo también empecé a adquirir ese hábito.

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  Smart, School, Effort

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• Los viajes me proporcionaron muchas experiencias interesantes, pero quizá la lección más útil que aprendí fue que realmente no tenía competencia para aprender los miles de caracteres de la lengua china escrita.

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  Travel, Character, Interesting

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• I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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  California, Born

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• I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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  Modern, Old Fashioned

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

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  Teacher, Trouble, Made

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• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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  Mistake, Chinese, Literature

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• With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

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  Years, Surprise, Passing

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• It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

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  Years, Wife, Way

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

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  Teenage, Years, Culture

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• Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

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  Sister, Mother, Brother

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• The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

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  Energy, Different, Sparks

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

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  Escuela, Matemáticas, Años

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• After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

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  Computer, Infatuation, Burnt Out

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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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  Reading, School, Attention

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• Hoy en día hay relativamente pocos experimentos de física atómica que no impliquen el uso de un láser.

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  Use, Lasers, Physics

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