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

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

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

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

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.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.