Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – what’s going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research.

It’s a difficult question of relations between people.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

In many places where you have these kinds of people - very strong, very confident people - the atmosphere is frenetic and tense and unpleasant.

It was a marriage of convenience. Everybody recognized it as that, but we didn't think it was an extraordinary thing. The lab was a very nice place.

The notion of graduate students as colleagues rather than students is a more modern notion, I think - across the country, in many different fields.

Postdocs are needed to build a modern research team; you want to bring in people with different backgrounds and different skills.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.