Quotes about "Time & Aging"

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really. ”

It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm. ”

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time. ”

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways. ”

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. ”

The 1960s were really a life-changing time. ”

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. ”

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. ”

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.' ”

Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola. ”