The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

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 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.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

The Bible itself claims that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.