Martin Lewis Perl Quotes

• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Children, School, Parent

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• Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Art, Two, Knowing

  "Physics, 1991-1995" by G sta Ekspong, 1997.

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• The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  World, Curriculum, Faces

  "Nobel Lectures in Physics 1991-1995" edited by Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific, (p. 161), 1997.

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• I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Travel, Fiction, Biographies

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Book, Answers, Measurement

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• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Pain, School, Parent

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• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Interesting, Parent, Language

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Sports, Children, Play

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Distance, Book, Home

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

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Depression, Children, War

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

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Teacher, School, Parent

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• I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Parent, Chemistry, Willing

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

  Martin Lewis Perl

  School, Serious Business, Mark

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

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Children, Russia, Parent

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• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Moving, Class, Parent

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