Martin Lewis Perl quotes

Martin Lewis Perl was an American physicist renowned for his discovery of the tau lepton, a fundamental particle. This breakthrough significantly expanded the understanding of particle physics and the Standard Model. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work. Here are 24 of his quotes:

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. (Martin Lewis Perl)
Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere. View quote
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You may turn a bad idea into a good idea - don't kill the bad idea prematurely. A bad idea can evolve into a good idea. View quote
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. View quote
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. View quote
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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. View quote
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. View quote
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The best colleagues are those who will think about your ideas, who will talk with you and offer insight, constructive criticism. No one needs to be crushed for having a new idea. View quote
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It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built. View quote
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Common elements of creativity are originality and imagination. Creativity is intertwined with the freedom to design, to invent and to dream. In engineering and science a creative idea is useful only if it meets three conditions: the constraint of the natural laws, the constraint of cost, and the constraint of technical feasibility. View quote
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For every good idea, expect to have five, ten, twenty wrong or useless ideas. You cannot avoid the bad ideas if you keep your imagination free. There is no spam filter for bad ideas. (Martin Lewis Perl)
I always look for colleagues who are smart, and who know a lot in many fields. The obvious advantage is that he or she may be able to solve the problem that has produced trouble in your work. Also smart and knowledgeable colleagues can save you time, and are interesting and inspiring! View quote
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Imagination and obsession are the keys to getting a good idea. To help your imagination keep your eyes and ears open. Avoid the "not invented here prejudice." View quote
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Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. View quote
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. View quote
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About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. View quote
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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. View quote
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A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. View quote
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My parents were determined to move into the middle class. (Martin Lewis Perl)
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. View quote
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. View quote
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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. View quote
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Martin Lewis Perl

Occupation: American Physicist
Born: June 24, 1927
Died: September 30, 2014
Quotes count: 24
Wikipedia: Martin Lewis Perl

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