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

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

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

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

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.

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.

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