My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

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