It’s not like being Elvis Presley or Johnny Cash.
a dime in a dozen ... the society will pay no attention to it.
It's one of the negative aftereffects of the prize. There is a sense that people want your name but not you. It separates you from your name in a way.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Science is the cult of the new: We publish hundreds of papers every year. Our colleagues read it. They know what is good — they know it right away
You want to leave room for young people
No, he won the Nobel Prize!
It’s difficult for everybody to get research funding [here at Cornell]
It’s much better to grow your own
We value our private lives, not having the hoopla. It helps you to concentrate on what you’re doing
I had a vision that [my daughter] Jenny had died and I was talking to a resident in a London hospital.