I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

I want to do something that matters.