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As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

~ Francois Englert

Able Assistant Degree Department Finance Got Masters New Physics Studies

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Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

~ Francois Englert

Applied Cannot Copying Creativity Fundamental Lose Make Needed Only Others Progress Quickly Research Solely Which You

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Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

~ Francois Englert

Act Each Electromagnetic Far Gravitational How How Far Interactions Matter Meaning Objects Other Separated

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I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!

~ Francois Englert

Feel I Feel Keep Lemon Like Office People Squeezed Turning Up

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I like to call it the scalar boson because this reflects an essential component of the theory - it means that the field the boson travels through has no preferred direction, unlike the way a magnetic field does.

~ Francois Englert

Because Call Component Direction Does Essential Field Like Magnetic Means Preferred Reflects Theory Through Travels Unlike Way

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I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

~ Francois Englert

Am Anne Belgium Born Children First Five I Am I Was Born Marriage Married November Sarah Second

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In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.

~ Francois Englert

Applications Decided Degree Engineering Got However Interest Learn Less Physics Practical Realised Structure Than Theoretical Underlying Understanding

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It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

~ Francois Englert

Able About Dive Everything Get Important Interested Main Main Thing Necessary Order Out Particular Peripheral Read Sort Subject Thing

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My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.

~ Francois Englert

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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

~ Francois Englert

Accept Citizens Come Curiosity Essential First Human Human Mind Mind Nonsense Rather Than Think Want Who You

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