My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

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

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.