Some People Are A Little Bit Afraid

I Had Two Passions When I Was A Child. First Was To Learn About Einstein's Theory And Help To Complete His Dream Of A Unified Theory Of Everything. That's My Day Job. I Work In Something Called String Theory. I'm One Of The Founders Of The Subject. We Hope To Complete Einstein's Dream Of A Theory Of Everything.

It's Pointless To Have A Nice Clean Desk, Because It Means You're Not Doing Anything.

One Problem With Politics Is That It Is A Zero Sum Game, I.e. Politicians Argue How To Cut The Pie Smaller And Smaller, By Reshuffling Pieces Of The Pie. I Think This Is Destructive. Instead, We Should Be Creating A Bigger Pie, I.e. Funding The Science That Is The Source Of All Our Prosperity. Science Is Not A Zero Sum Game.

I Realized Very Early In Life What My Abilities And Limitations Were, And Foreign Languages Was Definitely One Of My Limitations. With Strenuous Effort, I Just Barely Passed My French Class At Harvard So I Could Graduate.

When I Get Bored, Or Get Stuck On An Equation, I Like To Go Ice Skating, But It Makes You Forget Your Problem. Then You Can Tackle The Problem With A Fresh New Insight. Einstein Liked To Play The Violin To Relax. Every Physicist Likes To Have A Past Time. Mine Is Ice Skating.