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> [Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/going-to-school-and-working-for-good-marks-indeed-working-for-very/)

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## More by Martin Lewis Perl

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/i-learned-quickly-as-i-tell-my-graduate-students-now-there-are-no/)

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> [The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/the-remoteness-of-my-parents-from-the-schools-so-unfashionable-today/)

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> [About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/about-1900-my-parents-came-to-the-united-states-as-children-from-what/)

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> [Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/experimental-science-is-a-craft-and-an-art-and-part-of-the-art-is/)

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> [A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/a-parent-being-called-to-the-school-because-their-child-had/)

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> [Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/naturally-i-have-compensated-in-my-adult-years-by-owning-very-large/)

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> [There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/there-were-two-free-public-libraries-within-walking-distance-of-my/)

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> [As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/as-jews-their-families-left-russia-to-escape-the-poverty-and-the/)

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> [My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/my-parents-regarded-school-teachers-as-higher-beings-as-did-many/)

[Martin Lewis Perl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-lewis-perl/)

> [Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/going-to-school-and-working-for-good-marks-indeed-working-for-very/)

[Martin Lewis Perl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-lewis-perl/)

> [Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/whatever-the-course-whether-the-course-was-boring-or-interesting-to/)

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> [Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/natures-curriculum-cannot-be-changed/)

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> [This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/this-was-good-training-for-research-because-large-parts-of/)

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> [They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/they-wanted-me-to-play-more-sports-because-they-were-acutely/)

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> [Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/their-educations-ended-with-high-school-my-father-going-to-work-as-a/)

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