The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

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

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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

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.