Steinberger Quotes

#1. Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Warren Zevon

#2. 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.

Jack Steinberger

#3. Happy is he who can give himself up.

Naguib Mahfouz

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

Jack Steinberger

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

Jack Steinberger

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

Jack Steinberger

#7. Want
I want
I
want, we want
to wake up,
to wake out
of it, to wake into the light, I want
to dip, to bathe my everything
in light

David Grossman

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

Jack Steinberger

#9. It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

Bonnie Langford

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

Jack Steinberger

#11. 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.

Jack Steinberger

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

Jack Steinberger

#13. It looks like a parallelogram fucking an isosceles triangle, I said.

Leah Raeder

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

Jack Steinberger

#15. Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

George Clooney

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

Jack Steinberger

#17. 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.

Jack Steinberger

#18. She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#19. 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.

Jack Steinberger