I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.
It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.