32 Quotes by Martin Lewis Perl

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.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

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.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

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.