QUESTION:
Who was the man that inspired you to become a great physicist and philoshopher?
ANSWER:
When adolescent I had four heroes: my father (Augusto Bunge), Einstein, Marx, and Freud. I dropped Freud at 18, and Marx at 33.

QUESTION:
Which were the best and the worst moment of your career?
ANSWER:
I had very many good moments, more numerous than the bad ones. One of the best was in 1942, when the workers' school that I founded in 1938 grew to 1,000 registered students; another, the year 1957, when I won a chair in physics and another in philosophy. One of the worst moments was in 1952, when I was sacked from the university for refusing to join the ruling party; another, in 1984, when my philosophy colleagues forced me to retire.

QUESTION:
Did you ever come to Greece? And if yes what did you like most?
ANSWER:
My wife Marta and I visited Greece for the first time in 1963, and have returned every time we could, which has been about 30 times. She speaks Demotiki fluently, I babble it. What we liked best are its landscapes and seascapes, and the Greeek people. Only last week "La Nacion":, the oldest Argentine newspaper, published my short story "A Greek tragedy".

QUESTION:
Do you know any Greek physicist or philosopher?
ANSWER:
I was friend with a Greek colleague in the Physics Dept., and have often met a few Greek philosophers at meetings.

QUESTION:
Are you married?
ANSWER:
Yes, the first time from 1940 to 1957, and the second from 1958 to the present.

QUESTION:
Do you have any children?
ANSWER:
Yes, two from my first marriage : the physicist Carlos and the mathematician Mario; and two from my second marriage: the architect Eric and the cognitive neuroscientist Silvia. All four are university professors; the youngest two share my love of Greece and speak a little Demotiki.

QUESTION:
Tell us about your career. What was the most important thing in your career?
ANSWER:
The most important events in my career as a phusicist were my encounter in 1943 with Guido Beck, who initiated me in research in theoretical atomic and nuclear physics, and the publication in 1953 of the first paper I wrote without anyone's help. In philosophy, the discovery, in 1937, that I loved philosophy above all other disciplines.

QUESTION:
What are you hobbies?
ANSWER:
Reading novels in five languages, watching the news, and swimming in the Ionian sea; when young I used to play soccer, row, and swim.

QUESTION:
How is it like to possess such knowledge at this age?
ANSWER:
Enjoying every learning experience, and believing that one can relate apparently very distant pieces of knowledge.

QUESTION:
How are philosophy and physics combined?
ANSWER:
All the big physical problems, such as "What is matter?" and "Does the quantum theory favor realism or subjectivism?" are philosophical problems.

QUESTION:
I was amazed with your answer about the interview which was written in Greek. Where did you learn our languange?
ANSWER:
In Kerkyra over nearly half a century, but never enough to read the Greek classics.

QUESTION:
In 1982 you were awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias (Prince of Asturias Award). How did you feel at that moment?
ANSWER:
Exhilarated. The event was widely noticed in the Hispanic world, but ignored in the rest.

QUESTION:
What is your advice for the new age philosophers?
ANSWER:
To learn as much mathematics and science as possible, and to denounce as impostures all the nonsensical pomposities of Husserl, Heidegger, and their imitators.