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.
- George Gamow
Navy, Still, Languages, Attorney
I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.
- George Gamow
School, Still, Learned, Relativity
When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
- George Gamow
School, Studying, Equations, Algebra
All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.
- George Gamow
Apply, Distances, Smaller, Become
My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.
- George Gamow
Teacher, Literature, High, Russian
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