“I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.”
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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.