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

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

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

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

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

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