Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.

True leaders are born when you find something to die for