In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.