"When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments."

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"When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments."

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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."

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"I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature."

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"My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems."

Nature, Focus, Problems

"Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger."

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"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."

Americans,

"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time."

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"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."

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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

James Truslow Adams, American Historian

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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."

"I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature."

"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."

"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."

"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

"My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems."

"Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger."

"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."

"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time."

"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."

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"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."

"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"By Time and Age full many things are taught."