Will Martin
Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
men ideas attention
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.
parent chemistry willing
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
school parent world
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.
book answers measurement
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.
children russia parent
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
school serious-business mark
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
moving class parent
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
teacher school parent
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
children war years
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
distance book home
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.
sports children play
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.
interesting parent language
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.
mother father school
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.
curriculum faces world
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.