The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

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.

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.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

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.

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