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

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 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.

Marketing without sales is dead.

Big thoughts roam in big places. If you want to expand your thinking, expand your geography.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.