My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother … — Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin CornellPhysicist · American · b. 1961

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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. — Robert Frost
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. — Robert Frost
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell
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