At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
“At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.”
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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
“At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.”
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“At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.”
“Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.”
“Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.”
“As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.”
“It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.”
“When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.”
“I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.”
“I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.”
“I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'”
“I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.”
“I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.”
“I went from Lubbock, Texas, to Berkeley, California. That's enough said.”