I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.
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.
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
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.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please. . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"
You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive. " He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.