The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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

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

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.