Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.
There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.
String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
I suppose I'm worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won't be anyone around who knows what experiments are.
