Alan Lightman
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REBECCA JAFFE WERNHER VON BRAUN ROMOLA GARAI DEBI THOMAS The great thing about my career in physics is that I never work, I just have a great time doing it. CHARLES TOWNES MOTHER TERESA I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment. LOLA KIRKE STEVE PREFONTAINE I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am. STUART PEARCE The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A l... MARK ARNOLD I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine w... JON PETER LEWIS MICHIO KAKU I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers.... HAKAN NESSER If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and ... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doin... 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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. 
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Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research. 
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Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could ... 
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... 
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely was... 
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th... 
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th... 
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa... 
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing researc... 
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing. 
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In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame i... 
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. 
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