Martin Lewis Perl Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.”

“It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.”

“My parents were determined to move into the middle class.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.”