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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues. Carlo Rubbia

Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice. Carlo Rubbia

Time Science Organization Pure First Practice Field Research Back Tried Joint Idea Attracted Around First Time Effort Moved Where Newly Europe European Founded Nuclear

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton. Carlo Rubbia

Hundreds States Generally Observation Unstable New Particle Particles Led Just Which Many Appear Fundamental

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic. Carlo Rubbia

Energy Distinction Between Academic Renewable Renewable Energy

We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy. Carlo Rubbia

Time Long Long Time Energy Seem Only Date Economic Economic Policy Implementing New Policy Years Sources Get Short Rewards Short Time Energy Policy Fuel Energy Sources Fossil Fossil Fuel Aware

In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine. Carlo Rubbia

Sunshine Space Perhaps Italy Than Spain Little Much Certainly Less

I have to be where the best work can be done. Carlo Rubbia

Work Best Best Work Done Where

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. Cecil Frank Powell

Matter Other Recognition Photographic Atomic Features Had Particles Particular Method Methods Existence Escaped Establish Which Forms Transient Us

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. Cecil Frank Powell

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice. Charles Glover Barkla

Me Peace Science Feeling National Recognises Seems Nobel Nobel Peace Prize Academy Qualifying Unworthy Prize May Nationality Prejudice Swedish

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. Charles H. Townes

Work Hard Work Science Live Mutual Support Development Scientists Dependent Which Social Hard Many Societies Basically Phenomenon

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question. Charles H. Townes

Kind Knew Scientist Question Wanted Which

The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought. Chen-Ning Yang

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. Chen-Ning Yang

The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei together and the interaction between the nuclei and the z mesons. It also includes the interactions that give rise to the observed strange-particle production. Chen-Ning Yang

Together Rise Strongest Give Observed Between Also Forces Interaction Interactions Which Production Include Bind Nuclear

The three discrete invariances - reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance - are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem. Chen-Ning Yang

Time Reflection Three Important Charge Reversal Discrete Theorem Connected

The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in. Chen-Ning Yang

Physics Group Main Became Branches Theory Specialized Application

There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China. Chen-Ning Yang

Me Responsibility Vividly Could Between Learn Revealed Real Real Difference Chicago Chief American Difference China Chinese Compared Believed Professors

I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country. Chen-Ning Yang

Myself Country Lose Think Tops Bad Would Would-Be Morale General Sciences Still Scientist Very America Just Speaking Whole Belief

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. David Douglass

Truth Finds Observations Hypothesis Making Comparing

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. David Douglass

Truth History Indeed Bad Had Scientific Scientific Truth Consensus

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. David Douglass

Love Fall Absolutely Neutral Hypothesis Essential Should

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