George Gamow

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.