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To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
