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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."

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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."

"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."

"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."

"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."

"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."

"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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