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

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.

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.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.