Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.