Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
