About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
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… - Martin Lewis Perl
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…
- Martin Lewis Perl
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 m… - Martin Lewis Perl
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 m…
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 libr… - Martin Lewis Perl
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 libr…
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. - Martin Lewis Perl
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. - Martin Lewis Perl
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
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 m… - Martin Lewis Perl
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 m…
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. - Martin Lewis Perl
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. - Martin Lewis Perl
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my paren… - Martin Lewis Perl
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my paren…
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