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.

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

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

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

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.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.