My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I have always loved going to school.

Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me, for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.

God is in people

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.