Jack Steinberger Quotes

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Ideas, Physics)

"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
(Related: Family, Work, Depression, End, Engineering, Income)

"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
(Related: Army, Chicago, Months, Theory, University)

"I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Loyalty)

"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
(Related: Education, Power, Children, Laws, Persecution, Public, Schools)

"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
(Related: American, Children, Christmas, Washington)

"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Family, Chicago, University)

"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Propaganda)

"I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: State)