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.

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.

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.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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.