Eric Allin Cornell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Character #Interesting #Chinese
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

#Fun #Air #Watches
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Mother #Father #School
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

#Smart #School #Effort
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Mistake #Chinese #Literature
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Realizing #Reason #Be Good
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#California #Born
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Modern #Old Fashioned
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Teacher #Trouble #Made
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Years #Surprise #Passing
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Gratitude #Grateful #Perspective
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.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Reading #School #Attention
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Computer #Infatuation #Burnt Out
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#School #Math #Years
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.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Energy #Different #Sparks
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Sister #Mother #Brother
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Teenage #Years #Culture
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.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Writing #School #Chess
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.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Years #Wife #Way
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Use #Lasers #Physics

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