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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
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Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his…
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A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month…
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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I…
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both…
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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the…
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The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence…
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My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in…
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The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…
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The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
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I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.
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Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his…
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid…
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The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for…
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .…
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Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not…
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you…
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that…
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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and…
— Frederick Douglass
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It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and it's the…
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