Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes
"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Decision, Consequences)
"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Life, Months, Reading, Study)
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Life)
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Students, Years)
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Education, Girls, School)
"I have always loved going to school."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: School)
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Growing up, Parents)
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Experience, Love, Being, Mathematics, Theory)
"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Attention, Class, Study)
"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Life)
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Research)
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Home, Beginning, Interest, Mathematics, School)