We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God. ↗
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗
In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential. ↗
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. ↗
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. ↗
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. ↗
The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗