Jack Steinberger Quotes

#1. I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

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

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

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

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

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