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“I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.”

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Sebastian Pinera is a former President of Chile, born on December 1, 1949. He has extensive experience in politics, business, and education, serving as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014. more

“A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .”

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Book:Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature

Source: Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature

“The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.”

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Book:How to Get from January to December

Source: How to Get from January to December

“I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.”

Writing Long Book Objects Proof Writing A Book Earnestness Geologist

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.”

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Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

“When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.”

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

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