Burton Richter quotes
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“Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”
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“Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”
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“In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.”
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“Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.”
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“I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.”
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“Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.”
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“While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.”
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“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.”
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“Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.”
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“We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.”
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books
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“Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.”
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“To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.”
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“I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable”
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“History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.”
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Source : Source: to.pbs.org
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“I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.”
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