I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Answers Copy Share Image
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal… — Martin Lewis Perl Hard Copy Share Image
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. — Martin Lewis Perl Children Copy Share Image
Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There… — Martin Lewis Perl Art Copy Share Image
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the… — Martin Lewis Perl Children Copy Share Image
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. — Martin Lewis Perl Adult Copy Share Image
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the… — Martin Lewis Perl Books Copy Share Image
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. — Martin Lewis Perl Escape Copy Share Image
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. — Martin Lewis Perl Higher Copy Share Image
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. — Martin Lewis Perl Business Copy Share Image
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in… — Martin Lewis Perl Boring Copy Share Image
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in… — Martin Lewis Perl Boring Copy Share Image
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they… — Martin Lewis Perl Children Copy Share Image
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing… — Martin Lewis Perl Business Copy Share Image
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. — Martin Lewis Perl Changed Copy Share Image
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Books Copy Share Image
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. — Martin Lewis Perl Children Copy Share Image
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. — Martin Lewis Perl Chemistry Copy Share Image
