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 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.

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

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.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!

It's not respectable, ' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.