During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

The audience requires not information but drama.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.