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 prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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

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

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

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

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.