As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.