American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.