I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

I have been much blessed.