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You Know; When I Look At The Night Sky And I See This Enormous Splendor Of Stars And Galaxies, I Sometimes Ask The Question, Well How Many Worlds Are We Talking About? Well Do The Math, There Are About 100 Billion Galaxies That Are In The Visible Universe And Each Galaxy In Turn Contains About 100 Billion Stars, You Multiply And You Get About Ten Billion Trillion Stars. Well I Think It Is The Height Of Arrogance To Believe That We Are Alone In The Universe, My Attitude Is That The Universe Is Teaming, Teaming With Different Kinds Of Life Forms

I Would Hope That The Publicity Around The Higgs Boson Would Increase The Public Awareness Of Physics And Cosmology.

We Physicists Don't Like To Admit It, But Some Of Us Are Closet Science Fiction Fans. We Hate To Admit It Because It Sounds Undignified. But When We Were Children, That's When We Got Interested In Science, For A Lot Of Us.

In Physics, One Of The Most Exciting Areas Is In Nanotech. With Computers Exhausting The Power Of Silicon, Silicon Valley Could Become A Rust Belt, Unless We Can Find Replacements, Such As Quantum Computers And Molecular Computers. To Be A Leader In Any Field, One Has To Have A Great Imagination. Sure, We Have To Know The Basics And Fundamentals. But Beyond That, We Have To Let Our Imagination Soar.

We Can Summarize Electricity, Magnetism And Gravity Into Equations One Inch Long, And That's The Power Of Field Theory. And So I Said To Myself: I Will Create A Field Theory Of Strings. And When I Did It One Day, It Was Incredible, Realizing That On A Sheet Of Paper I Can Write Down An Equation Which Summarized Almost All Physical Knowledge.