30 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.