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 our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

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

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

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

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

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.