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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.