There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.