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Judah Folkman
Cancer Research
Judah Folkman: It was a very warm home with a tremendous sense of humor, and also an enormous value placed on learning. Every day, when we would come home for dinner, every day mom or dad would say, "Well, what did you learn today?" with great interest, like "Teach us." Not, not in the sense that you didn't learn anything. So no matter what, we'd say, "Well, we had geography. "So we'd tell them. They'd be so interested, as though they didn't know. So it was that for the whole time. I always remember. That's something we, all of us, remembered: "What did you learn?"
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Judah Folkman
Cancer Research
Judah Folkman: What is exciting about studying just this process, it's a process called angiogenesis, how blood vessels grow, is that it continues to lead to fruitful discoveries. These come every -- they come over long periods of time, sort of an "Aha!" moment. When you find out, for example, that the same molecules that you were studying that the tumor has made in excess, one of them is the one that completely is the cause of diabetic retinopathy, of the millions of people who have blood vessels in their eye. And that this one is also the cause, in a different regulation, of macular degeneration. 15 million Americans who have that -- blood vessels again in the back of the eye -- elderly, and 200,000 blind from it. No drug at all exists, nothing, and even laser doesn't work. And that's primitive because they burn away the retina and then it doesn't work, so people go blind. And now you realize that you have -- in fact -- you understand it enough to turn that off.
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Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize in Economics
I had a teacher in high school who was really somehow -- I think he taught government or political science, something like that, whatever you call it in high school -- but he also taught Euclidian geometry, plane geometry, simply because he liked it as such a beautiful, intellectual discipline. And I took his course, and one point or another, he got rhapsodizing about the beauty of geometry, and he quoted the last lines of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn." "Truth is beauty, beauty is truth. That is all you know, and all you need to know." And those two lines stuck with me. I was about, probably 12 or 13 at the time. And they have stuck with me ever since, because they so much reflected the sort of feeling I had about the geometry, as well, and about mathematics in general, that its appeal is one of beauty, kind of an intellectual purity and beauty. And now, I'm sure that was what drove me into the direction of thinking I wanted to make mathematics my lifetime work.
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