Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song, then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow.

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

One thing is sure: if you want running fast in competition, you must run fast in training. The problem is WHEN and HOW, not IF.

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.