“You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.”

—  Jack Steinberger

Interview http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-interview.html with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/.

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