People tell me that I work hard. I never feel that I do particularly, because it’s fun. I always say, “Well, I’ve never worked hard in my life.” I’m busy, but most of what I do is enjoyable. It isn’t that it’s not tedious to some people, and so on, and of course I have routine to do, but I don’t mind it. I just don’t feel that I’m put upon. I spend a lot of time, but it’s fun. It’s a very intensive hobby. I would say it’s my most serious hobby. I have lots of hobbies, but the one permanent one is science, physics. So yes, I spend a lot of time, and I would agree with Edison, you have to work very hard and intensively.
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Charles H. Townes
Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of the maser and laser
United States · 1915–2015
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Physicist who conceived the maser at Columbia University in 1951 and shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for the underlying principle. Later worked in radio and infrared astronomy at Berkeley.
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