Famous quotes by Physicists

"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"My parents were determined to move into the middle class"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"About 1900, my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

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