It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then. . . We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.