All Martin Lewis Perl Quotes
- I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Biographies
- My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of… All
- I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. Buy
- 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… Deal
- 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… Answers
- 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… Bank
- About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. Area
- Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. Business
- My parents were determined to move into the middle class. Class
- My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. Beings
- It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. Child
- There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by… Book
- Nature's curriculum cannot be changed. Changed
- They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all… Acutely
- Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents… Boring
- Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and… Bookkeeper
- As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. Antisemitism
- This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is… Boring
- Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. Adult