15 Quotes by Jack Steinberger

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

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

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

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

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.

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