"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."

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John Pople

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“I've signed a few sneakers in my day.”
“My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.”

Source : "The Hour of the Star". Book by Clarice Lispector, 1977.
“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.”
“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.”
“The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain”
“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isnâ€™t being political, it is being selfish.”
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”

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