The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out.

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.

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.

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

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.

Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license.

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

Don’t just think it, ink it.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.