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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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