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Checkout quotes by Jim Peebles on Physics

• ‟ I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.

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• ‟ I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.

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• ‟ I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

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• ‟ I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

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• ‟ I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

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