Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.