I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.