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.

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.

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.

Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life’s beauty can find a meaningful life.

Many who have found Jesus Christ wanting in time of need have God confused with a genii.

Drink and drive are prohibited in all countries. Otherwise, alcohol will drive us to hell or at-least to jail.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.