Israel Lopez

I dont like honors, I am appreciated for the work that I did, and for people to appreciate it, and I notice a lot of other physicists use my work, I dont have a need anything else, I dont think there is any sense to anything else, I dont see that it makes any point that someone in the swedish academy decides that it is work is noble enough to recieve a prize, ive already got the prize the prize is the pleasure of finding thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation of other people using it, those are the real things … the honors are unreal to me. I dont believe in honors, honors bother me… i cant stand it … it hurts me. When i was in high school one of the first honors I got was to be a member of the arister which was a group of kids who got good grades, and everybody wanted to be a arister. And when I got in to the arister, I discovered what they did in their meetings was to sit around to discuss who else was worthy to join this wonderful group that we are. Well okay so we sat around to discuss who was to get be allowed in, this kind of thing bothers me… and from that day since honors have bothered me.