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

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

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

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

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

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.