I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

It's a small world? Dude, what have you been smoking?

Hillary Clinton has a miracle disease, a miracle strain of pneumonia that doesn't hurt her or anybody else. The problem is, nobody's ever heard of it.