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

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.

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.

I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength.

We met in a school elevator, and he could tell from the way I spoke that we had some sadness in common.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

…men never forgive like women.

Desire makes everything blossom

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.