I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

Science leads you to killing people.

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.