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The experimenter dealing with...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

Experimental science is a cra...

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

My final remark to young wome...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

I learned quickly, as I tell ...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

The remoteness of my parents ...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

There were two free public li...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

I read everything: fiction, h...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

Whatever the course, whether ...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

They wanted me to play more s...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

I was also interested in chem...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

My parents were determined to...

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

A parent being called to the ...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

Naturally, I have compensated...

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

This was good training for re...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

I read everything: fiction, hi...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

They wanted me to play more sp...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

A parent being called to the s...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

Their educations ended with hi...

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.

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

I was also interested in chemi...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

The experimenter dealing with ...

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

Martin Lewis Perl 20 quotes

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