The Ambition Around Science in the 80s

There was this sense of enormous excitement in the air that scientists could accomplish anything. I had been a hippie acid kid and looked to mysticism, psychedelics and meditation as a way of understanding everything. And then I became sort of disillusioned with that and thought, you know, we don't need LSD,. We don't need yoga and meditation. Theoretical physics is our root to ultimate truth. So that at least from my perspective, that was what was happening in the 80s. And it was really thrilling.