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

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

- Martin Lewis Perl

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

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- Martin Lewis Perl

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

- Martin Lewis Perl