Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.