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Steven Chu Quotes
At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins. - Steven Chu Quotes
Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems. - Steven Chu Quotes
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. - Steven Chu Quotes
Despite the importance of education in our family, my life was not completely centered around school work or recreational reading. - Steven Chu Quotes
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison detre. - Steven Chu Quotes
Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. - Steven Chu Quotes
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States. - Steven Chu Quotes
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. - Steven Chu Quotes
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. - Steven Chu Quotes
I joined Bell Laboratories in the fall of 1978. I was one of roughly two dozen brash, young scientists that were hired within a two year period. - Steven Chu Quotes
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. - Steven Chu Quotes
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. - Steven Chu Quotes
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. - Steven Chu Quotes
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. - Steven Chu Quotes
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. - Steven Chu Quotes
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