“The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated.”

— Robert B. Laughlin

Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)
Context: The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated. Out there on the prairie lost opportunities of youth were the rule rather than the exception, and I slowly became disabused of the myth of the Bright Young Thing and have not believed in it since.

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American physicist 1950

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