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

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.

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

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.