- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
- Fields
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
- Formal Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
- Extremely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020