Robert B. Laughlin Quote

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.


Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)


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...

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...

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...

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...