"It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery."

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Source : "Nobel Prize in Physics". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. March 18, 1991.

Charles Hard Townes

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“To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.”
“Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.”
“In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.”
“A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”
“Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.”
“My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.”
“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.”
“The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious.”

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