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"I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."


"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."


"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 my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."
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