It's odd, but in the infrequent occasions when I've been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums
the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
[audience laughter]
I believe that's probably that we respect the arts more than the sciences.
[audience laughter]
The artist of the renaissance said that man's main concern should be for man.
And yet there are some other things of interest in the world.
Even the artist appreciates the sunsets, the ocean waves...
and the march of the stars across the heavens.
There is some reason, then, to talk of other things sometimes.
As we look into these things
 
