American - Physicist | June 24, 1927 -
Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
Martin Lewis Perl
CurriculumCannotChangedNatures
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
ParentsClassDeterminedMoveMiddle
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
ChildrenParentsRussiaUnitedAbout
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
PovertyEscapeRussiaLeftJews
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.
WorkFatherMotherSchoolPrinting
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
GoodBusinessSchoolSeriousGoing
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
SchoolParentsImmigrantsTeachers
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.
PoliceSchoolChildParentSerious
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.
TodayParentsMeWorldEarlyHard
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.
MathematicsParentsMeInteresting
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.
WorkGoodTrainingResearchSkills
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
ScienceHistoryMathematicsTravel
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Martin Lewis Perl quotes