I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.