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.

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.

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

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

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

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.