I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

When we die, we go into the arms of those who remember us.

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Team Leo!~ Leo valdez

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.