John Preskill

Pretty sad that that would be something mentioned so soon because I think he kind of played it up just to look like, you know, scientists aren't all nerds and, you know, can't get anywhere or whatever.

I think there was a lot of sort of image making and then he realized it kind of went too far, but he couldn't change it because the L.A.

Times guy said, my condition is I'm not changing a word.

You know, there was something on a blackboard right after he died.

They preserved the blackboard for a while, took pictures, and it said, what I cannot create, I do not understand.

He liked to construct things from the ground up.

That's basically it.

Well, there's a lot of stories about it, but it's getting late, so we'll let it go at that point.

One of the sad things that's happened is that the search for truth has become politicized.