So I think that as science is organized in Japan at the moment it will not make a great deal of headway in innovative science. That's my own opinion.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.