This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.