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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.