I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

No family is sane, is it?

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.