The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact….

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 adequa….

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science..

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

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my ….

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends..

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe..

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play..

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so..

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was ….

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became profes….

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands..

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little..

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 n….

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course..