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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.