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Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Curriculum
Natures
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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Class
Determined
Middle Class
Moving
Parent
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Travel
Biographies
Fiction
Biography
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Teacher
Higher
Immigrants
Parent
School
School Teachers
Teachers
Beings
Regarded
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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Poverty
Russia
Escape
Jews
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Large Numbers
Numbers
Adult
Naturally
Owning
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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 / Physicist
Chemistry
Parent
Willing
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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 / Physicist
Depression
War
Children
Good Fortune
Years
Youth
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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 / Physicist
Mark
School
Serious Business
Business Good School
Indeed
Marks
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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 / Physicist
Children
Parent
Russia
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The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Curriculum
Faces
World
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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 / Physicist
Home
Book
Distance
Libraries
Limit
Visit
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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 / Physicist
Answers
Book
Equipment
Graduate Students
Measurement
Strange
Work Look Back
Graduate
Measurements
Quickly
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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 / Physicist
Interesting
Language
Parent
Languages
Talented
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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 / Physicist
Pain
Painful
Parent
School
Today World Me
Schools
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This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist
Gifted
Research
Skills
Particularly
Involve
Parts
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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 / Physicist
Children
Parent
Police
School
Bank
Police Station
Robbed
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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 / Physicist
Sports
Children
Percent
Play
Sensitive
All Americans
Believed
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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 / Physicist
Art
Knowing
Two
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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 / Physicist
Father
Firm
Merchants
Mother
Printing
Salesman
School
Secretary
Stationary
Wool
Clerk
Dealing
Educations
Ended
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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 / Physicist
Men
Science
Ideas
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