I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.