The Making of a Physicist: A Talk with Murray Gell-Mann (2003)

Since the evidence for those larger groupings is naturally scarcer than it is for closer relationships, we have to be as careful and as scientific as possible.My brother was almost nine years old when I was born and, like me, was three years ahead of most other students in his school. I was a student at Columbia Grammar for seven years, from sixth through twelfth grade, and having attended a private school must have helped me later with admission to a good university. When it came time to apply for admission to Yale University I had to fill out a form that asked, among other things, what my major subject would be if I were admitted.

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