Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Quotes

#1. Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

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#2. Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

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#3. I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.

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#4. My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

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#5. Science is the future of mankind.

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#6. An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

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#7. I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.

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