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• The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his…
• A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month…
• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I…
• The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both…
• The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the…
• The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence…
• My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in…
• The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…
• The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
• I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

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