I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward others that they may bear witness to your belief(s).

Men of God are not just born, they are formed

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

Most people still steal music.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.