My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

I enjoy growth; I enjoy having a lot of different experiences. And I don't think I am the kind of guy who'd like to do the same thing every day for 40 years.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.