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.

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.

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

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

money make the world and your family turn

For years I wanted to be older and now I am.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

If we dont heal our own hood, who will?

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there

Start slowly, then taper off.