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I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

I was brought up as a physicist.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.