"I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal."

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Source : Interview with Spencer Michels in "The NewsHour" on PBS, May 2, 2007.

Steven Chu

#Brother Quotes #Two Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.”
“One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.”
“Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.”
“I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.”
“If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!”
“Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface”
“In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”
“The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.”

Source : Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”

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