Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.
“The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.”
“So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.”