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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Robert B. Laughlin

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Robert B. Laughlin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 1
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Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
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Visalia
California
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