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.

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.

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

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

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.

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.