Martin Lewis Perl

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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