Eric Allin Cornell quotes

Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist renowned for his groundbreaking work in the field of atomic physics. His co-creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is widely respected for contributions that have advanced experimental quantum physics. Here are 20 of his quotes:

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. (Eric Allin Cornell)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. View quote
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. View quote
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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. View quote
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. (Eric Allin Cornell)
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. View quote
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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. View quote
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. View quote
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. View quote
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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. View quote
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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. View quote
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Eric Allin Cornell

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Occupation: American Physicist
Born: December 19, 1961
Quotes count: 20