Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming..

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology..

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services..

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature..

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's d….

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community..

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969..

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based….

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research..

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology..

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hi….

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due t….

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriag….

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a….

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts..