Frank W.
Subscriber since: August 2012
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Professor at MIT, Nobel prize in physics 2004. Aspiring author.
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Favorite Word:

defenestration
1. "Defenestration" rolls off the tongue in five ripe syllables. 2. It's amazing and hilarious that such a specific, unlikely action has its own word. 3. It makes me think of Prague, and then of the movie Amadeus, and then of Mozart.
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Favorite Quote:

"Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any office than to serve and obey them."
- David Hume