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.
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
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.
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…
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…
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.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. - Martin Lewis Perl
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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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