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.

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

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.

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.

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