Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

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

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

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

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

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

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.