15 Quotes by Jack Steinberger

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

I spent some months on active duty in the Army, but was released after the Japanese surrender, to continue my studies. It was a wonderful atmosphere.

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

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.

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

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

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.

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

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.