Carl Wieman

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"I wasn't really able to do the atomic physics research at a level that I was very happy with any more. I've never wanted to be one of those doddering old scientists who are 30 years behind the times."

—Carl Wieman

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"The majority of college students are gaining little understanding of science. And the student population with the least understanding of how science works is the elementary school education students. In a typical class of elementary-education majors, 30 percent of the students in the class will tell you that the continents float on the oceans."

—Carl Wieman

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"The way it is presented, there's this level of abstraction that is put in there unnecessarily."

—Carl Wieman