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• I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative…
• I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
• The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal…
• I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the…
• A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the…
• About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
• My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
• It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
• There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the…

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