Crooked Quote by Jack Steinberger

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

— Jack Steinberger

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end,…

— Jack Steinberger

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children…

— Jack Steinberger

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

— Jack Steinberger

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to…

— Jack Steinberger

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

— Jack Steinberger

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

— Jack Steinberger

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

— Jack Steinberger

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

— Jack Steinberger

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

— Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a…

— Jack Steinberger

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

— Jack Steinberger