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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Days come and go, but the only thing that remains within you are the lessons that you learn by each passing day.

Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna...love you...grrr?'" Olivia to Annalia

Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment